Andy Burnham: “Creating room to breathe is my number one priority, and the whole of this government is united on that.”

In a fundamental change to the education system, we will introduce new technical education pathways from 14 – prestigious routes that will give students the chance to combine the core academic subjects with the skills, technical knowledge…

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

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.

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.