Andy Burnham: “Councils built this country out of a housing crisis once before. Backed properly, and trusted to get on with it, they…”

In my view, all political parties in the UK should do everything they can to support the two-state solution between Israel and Palestine.

So I can confirm today we will legislate to make sure that non-compete clauses will no longer be a barrier to hiring for our most promising start-ups and scaling firms.

I believe some businesses have gone too far in their use of restrictive practices such as non-compete clauses, a view I know shared by many in this room and across the sector.

We can do it, and we can be the nation in the next 10 years that… does find the cure for cancer, that does make the breakthrough on dementia, or indeed on nuclear fusion.