Andy Burnham: “In future, when a Burnhamite walks into a bar... I want the barman to say: 'Great to see you - we don’t like factional…”

Non-compete clauses stop workers from joining a rival organisation, or indeed, setting up one of their own after they have left their role, and I think that's a drag on innovation and prevents the best really being energised and bringing…

Politics has become too suffocating. We need greater ambition. The country is not where it should be and nothing simple gets us out of that. We need to show a journey and a longer-term plan.

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.

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