Andy Burnham: “Running the country is a serious business. You can’t just get swept up in moments and emotions and impulses and the…”

My message to young people is this - whether you choose construction, coding or classics, or maths, manufacturing or mechanics, you'll get the skills you need and be given the respect you deserve.

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.

I’m not the last Prime Minister of the UK. I’ll be the first to rewire it to make it work properly in Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and England.

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