Andy Burnham

Reforms to education will help avert a new generation of "Neets".

Last week I said we needed a different kind of politics: problem-solving, not point-scoring. Nowhere is that more urgent than social care.

It’s time to draw a line under people playing politics when the human cost of that means carers struggling, families paying the price and our NHS buckling under the strain.

Politicians might have different views but I’m serious about fixing this issue and to do that, we have to find common ground and listen to others to find a way forward.

I think we do allow people to suffer and families to suffer too much.

This is a watershed, where all of the political parties are going to have to put their differences to one side.

Accused politicians of a "shameful" response to the issue.

We won’t fix this through politics as usual.

The third announcement is to start right now initiating cross-party talks on social care.

I think it's a really awful process.

This is personal to me.

This is about bringing back hope that we can finally fix the difficult issues that have been ignored for too long, and making Britain believe again. That’s why I’m making this choice and I’m prepared to put everything I’ve got behind it.

This comes down to a choice. We can carry on passing the problem to the next generation, or we can face it head on and work together to build a care system that gives people dignity, security and the support they deserve.

On this issue, please can we have a factual debate? Can we allow people to weigh up the different options … and then just come to a considered view based on those facts?

I think the whole thing is horrendous for those who live through it. They see everything that their parents have worked for just whittled away in front of them, paying for care that often isn’t good enough.

Some of what we would want to [do] in the fullest sense will require difficult decisions … But we will be honest with people about those.

But we will be honest with people about those. We will put them before the country at the right time, and we will hopefully proceed with people’s consent.

I think more is possible from within existing resources. And the things that I’ve talked about today, particularly around the workforce, will be fully funded.

Football belongs to the fans. It always has, and it always will.

Let me say this very directly. 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.

I have asked Baroness Casey to bring forward her report by a year.

I want major reform of the social care system in England, calling the current situation 'bad for everybody'.

That is the fixing of the funding of palliative care and social care.

I take the view that that debate - and I don't say that there shouldn't be a debate at some point about those issues - personally, I think there's something that needs to happen first.

We're going to have to find common ground here if this is to be a lasting solution.