Andy Burnham

As a government, we have a very clear principle: if you break UK law, you will be removed from the country and we have seen that in relation to immigration, where removals are significantly up.

It's a matter for Harry and for Meghan, and we wish them well in the move that they are making.

It follows that if we're taking this approach, it's made explicitly clear what the UK law is and what the societal norms of the UK are and that's why this approach is being taken.

We should be getting in much earlier, apprehending them, using all of the intelligence that comes through that investigation to make sure the polluter pays.

We've begun a much more networked approach to this, where we're bringing the National Crime Agency in to work with the Environment Agency, increasing the penalties and bearing down now on the organised crime that lies behind some of what…

Let’s get people out the cold. And let’s bring back hope.

I won’t accept it. That’s why my first instruction as Prime Minister was to end rough sleeping. And it’s why today we’re getting started with a national drive to get everyone in for Christmas.

No-one should have to bed down in a doorway or outside a station. But we’ve seen it for so long that it feels like Westminster has started to accept it.

Isn’t the job to be popular by making people’s lives better?

There’s a job to be done around control of public finances. It’s just the dual job of growth and control of public finances (that) sometimes clouds the growth mission,

The very personable and proactive PM Andy Burnham has said he will extend devolution in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

But all of that growth has to mean something. And if people are still sleeping beneath the cranes building that new Britain, I’ll never kid myself that our job’s done.

It’s our job to catch people long before they hit the pavement, and that means dealing with the multitude of reasons why someone might be sleeping rough in the first place.

Because if we all play our part – if we all put care of people at the heart of what we do – we can bring some of that hope back to our communities.

That’s not on the public. It’s on us as politicians.

Not to manage it, not to reduce it – but to end it. And today, we’re taking the first step in getting it done.

It shouldn’t be happening here. But we’ve lived with it for so long that something that used to shock us now feels like part of the scenery.

We see people bedded down in doorways and sat outside stations, carrying their lives in rucksacks and sleeping bags on their backs. And I think most people have the same reaction: this isn’t right.

I wouldn’t want to ask anybody to do anything that I’m not prepared to do. I want to lead from the front.

I am making a commitment to donate the same of my prime minister’s salary.

Let’s see if Britain can do this. Give everybody an offer to come inside before Christmas.

The government money may not fully get us there, and I’m saying to wider society, faith organisations, let’s see if we can do this together.

We’re putting £442m behind a national drive to get everyone in for Christmas.

We can do it again. That’s why the first thing I announced when I became prime minister was a commitment to end rough sleeping. Not to manage it, not to reduce it – but to end it.

I’ve never accepted that. Britain is the fifth largest economy in the world. We’ve built the NHS, developed life-saving vaccines and invented the world wide web. But it’s somehow beyond us to get our own people off the streets? I don’t…