Andy Burnham: “As Burnham takes the keys to No 10 in this combustible summer, his choice is simple: close the adaptation gap or fall…”

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.

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.

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.