Andy Burnham: “We need to have a country where everyone, in the end, can live a comparable life. That should be what we’re working…”

If the UK wants to build global companies, we need to be globally competitive. To do that, we cannot have Britain's start-ups simply sell up.

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

I want Britain to be the country that makes the breakthrough and delivers the cure for dementia the world has been waiting for.

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…