Andy Burnham

Archie, thank you for this. I know how hard it must have been.

I will be changing public procurement (to include) more social value weighting in public contracts, and it will particularly be focusing on more provision of those 45-day work placements.

People want to see this issue addressed.

I went into his care home on Sunday, and so for people listening now, because this may have gone out later, this was the Sunday after I'd become Prime Minister, so six days later.

I would come out and I'd turn my phone on, the old Nokia mobile phone and first text in block capitals from said person, this is what it would read, "Answer the f***ing question."

She took some persuading, to be honest, because I guess she didn't want to see me go through it all again and then end out on the wrong side, at the end of it.

Yeah, she was like, ‘What? Not again. They told you twice they don't want you. Why are you doing it again?’

It's why I find this podcast easy because she's quite blunt in telling me about my failures in past endeavours and she doesn't hold back and there's no soft landing there.

Sometimes in politics you have to say: ‘I’m going to break out of the consensus and start talking about those things in a different way’, and it’s what I’ve started to do.

It has to be radical, we’d have never created the NHS if we weren’t radical as a country at times.

In fact, social care has gone backwards and doesn’t that just say something how politics has really fallen?

I feel that my generation of politicians is guilty of a shameful dereliction of duty, political cowardice of the worst kind in saying that this issue is too difficult and we’re not going to touch it.

I am committed to a new kind of politics – problem solving not point scoring.

I want to create growth in every postcode.

My government will deliver the fastest prison building programme since the Victorian era and do what’s necessary to fix the prison crisis.

Keeping the public safe is my top priority. That’s why I asked for an urgent review of the prisoner release scheme.

This is the start of a complete rewiring of economic and political power in Britain.

We will be relentless in lowering the number of people arriving to the UK on small boats.

I will expedite Baroness Louise Casey’s commission into social care, bringing its deadline forward from 2028 to next year.

Regions need true financial autonomy, not just hand-outs from Westminster.

I’m not going to be shy about it: this is the start of a complete rewiring of economic and political power in Britain.

First, I have asked him to review the indefinite sentences handed out between 2005 and 2012, called Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP).

I have also asked the justice secretary to identify other ways to free up prison capacity that will be more palatable to the public.

This has to change. It's been going for too long and the suffering is unbearable.

Please invest and make the difference. I'm on my knees begging for – not just my own life – but for those of my best friends and those that are affected and the families around the country.