Al Carns: “The economic trajectory of Manchester's in a positive way”

To take another role now, in another department, would suggest that it has.

Until the country was spending what it needed to spend on defence, I would keep making that case from the backbenches.

He is a man of his word and he has made it clear that he will deliver on the commitments that led him to leave government in the first place.

I said so publicly and I still stand by every word.