Andy Burnham: “Our long-term ambition is clear: to achieve equivalent living standards across all the regions and nations of the UK.”

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.

Non-compete clauses stop workers from joining a rival organisation, or indeed, setting up one of their own after they have left their role, and I think that's a drag on innovation and prevents the best really being energised and bringing…

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.

This investment goes hand in hand with our plans for a National Care Service, helping ensure that people living with dementia get the care and support they need.