Andy Burnham: “To come back to the tax point, I will stick to the manifesto. That is important.”

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.

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

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.

The controversial motion... shouldn't be supported in any way, shape or form.