Andy Burnham

How many people have lost their homes and their savings in that time? We need to face it and fix it.

Andy Burnham must raise the tax-free personal allowance to help thousands of struggling families

I promised breathing space on the cost of living in my first speech from Downing Street.

We’re taking immediate action to cut taxes on energy bills, put more money in people’s pockets and bring back hope.

I said I wanted to give people breathing space, and that's what I'm announcing on my second day as Prime Minister. We're taking immediate action to cut taxes on energy bills, put more money in people's pockets and bring back hope.

It's not everything but it shows our determination to do something about peoples living standards, and it kind of points the way for further measures that we hope to take to take that pressure off people.

Life's hard out there in the moment isn't it.

Always we will show how we are going to pay for it, what we are reprioritising. That will be a theme that we will always come back to.

Corrosive imbalances of wealth, power and status must be challenged through a 'circuit-breaker' administration

Only through being braver and truer to its original vocation can Labour restore faith in politics and renew a disillusioned nation.

I could consider utilising flexibility in the fiscal rules to bolster public investment.

We need to be a cost-of-living government, getting that cost of living down, looking at all possible ways of doing that.

What can we do just to take that little bit of pressure off people’s shoulders, just to give them that little extra sense that help is coming so that they can have that bit of hope that things are getting better. And that’s the mission…

I want to give people what I called 'breathing space' to 'help with the cost of living.'

I intend to lead a new kind of politics – problem solving not point scoring.

I have heard issues related to the personal allowance more than anything on the doorsteps in Makerfield.

We need to make politics work better and raise our game and rise to the new challenge.

I will end rough sleeping in our country.

I want to deliver the biggest council house building programme since the post-war period

The UK is in the grip of a housing crisis

I would seek to persuade my own party of the need to include a pledge in Labour's next election manifesto to replace the UK's first-past-the-post system with a form of proportional representation.

I want to see a 'fair and lasting' reduction to the UK's welfare bill.

I would stick to Labour's pledge at the last election not to raise the main rates of income tax, VAT or National Insurance.

This is something a government can fix if it chooses to. Today, I'm choosing to.

For too long, we've been told that ending rough sleeping will take decades or even that it's impossible. I'm not having that.