Andy Burnham

This is a policy that is about growth and investment.

Under our plans, more of the taxes raised in a community will stay in that community.

I want to get inside these issues before I confirm any of the plans that I inherited and, in fact, probably looking for changes.

My instincts are that we need to find ways of not reducing access to jury trial.

We will stick to Labour's fiscal rules on spending and borrowing as well as the party's 2024 manifesto pledges not to increase income tax, VAT or national insurance contributions.

Once you have sold a piece of (the World Cup), you have sold out.

Football does not belong to investors. It belongs to the people who fill the stands and who stand on the touchline week in, week out, rain or shine.

It is time to value 'the hard hat' as much as 'the graduation cap'.

That's why I’m making this choice and I'm prepared to put everything I've got behind it.

I would never forgive myself if I left without having tried.

I’m making this a test of myself.

It’s a major dereliction of public duty that Parliament has not faced up to this, of all challenges.

To come back to the tax point, I will stick to the manifesto. That is important.

If we're going to get to a solution, we're all going to have to listen to each other.

They should be the best-paid people in society, not the worst.

And if we change those things, then we will open up the way of meeting our commitments on defence.

We’ve got to start investing in success and helping people succeed, rather than paying for failure.

In terms of our Nato commitments, I have been very clear that we will honour those commitments.

When it comes to defence, obviously those commitments … relate to the Parliament after this one.

I will not pursue a kind of crude approach, crude cuts to benefits to get the welfare bill down.

I do not want to blame people for being on benefits but I promise to get really serious about reducing the welfare bill.

And why do we have that? The support just isn’t there.

What we need is a new way of doing politics where we come together, face the challenge head on and build an integrated system that gives people security and dignity.

I just don’t accept that this problem is too big to solve.

I won’t stand by and leave people paying the price for Westminster’s refusal to deal with the real issues facing our country.