Andy Burnham

We need to be better, so I want to work with the Northern Ireland Executive and the main political parties to try and make a real difference to communities here, and that's the message I'll be taking into my meetings later.

A decade since the Brexit referendum I think we've had too much division, too much arguing, too much backward-looking.

Well obviously I'm here as I said earlier to listen and I will take a collaborative approach, but some issues will be off the table and that is one issue that will be off the table.

We need to fix the things right in front of us in the here and now,

Number 10 North is as much at the service of Wales, as it is at the service of England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, and it's there to make Whitehall work better for Wales, and that's what I've said to the Welsh government today.

All of this can be discussed at the National Economic Council that I've called for October.

Ukraine has become one of the world’s greatest laboratories for modern warfare.

I will not be deterred from providing aid to Ukraine.

I’m looking forward actually to my first meeting. We had a good phone call on my first day in office and looking forward to meeting in person.

But, at the same time, I am somebody who works with people, tries to find common ground, and obviously that’s what I should be doing in this job in the British public’s interest, and I will always take that approach.

I’ve had a habit of saying what I feel over the years, and I’ll continue to do that.

Well, he’s said things as well, and everyone says things as politicians. In the moment you meet people where they’re at, and you find a connection with people, and that’s always been my style.

Another referendum is "off limits" because it would take the UK Government's focus "away from growing the economy and helping families with the cost of living".

I accused the Kremlin of outrageous threats against the UK.

But then we need employers to step forward and offer those work placements too.

This is exactly what we need.

We need a national drive to challenge youth unemployment

Doing something that's truly reprehensible

It is actually a huge transfer of power…having No 10 leading on that growth mission means you've got maximum power to unlock the blockages where they exist in the wider governmental system.

We have a manifesto and I will honour that manifesto.

I will do what I can but I won’t be unrealistic and people really need to understand that.

No child should be raised in a hostel room and no family should wait ten years for a front door of their own. I have said from my first day in this job that everything starts with a good home.

Nearly £10bn will go to councils and housing associations to build genuinely affordable homes, most of them for social rent, in the places where families are waiting longest.

I have said from my first day in this job that everything starts with a good home.

Councils built this country out of a housing crisis once before. Backed properly, and trusted to get on with it, they will do it again.