Andy Burnham: “I think you’ve got it completely wrong, really, if you don’t mind me saying, to put it like that, because I have put out…”

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.

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.

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.

We will do what we can to request that the right steps are being taken, and that’s the approach we’ll take.