Andy Burnham

I want to see greater public control of the water and energy sectors.

We will help people to live well, building a more preventative state, investing in people's success rather than paying for failure.

The VAT cut will "put more money in people's pockets".

In my first speech as the UK's prime minister, I vowed to provide "breathing space" for households struggling with the cost of living.

The biggest changes in the last 40 years

We need to be better. We will be.

The country’s political class has “not been good enough.”

People at home are fed up with politics

Politicians "need to be better."

Westminster has not been working for people for too long, with families struggling with the cost of living.

I vowed to deliver a new plan for Britain.

It is a moment for reflection, and new resolution.

We have not been good enough, and we need to be better.

We will make this moment a circuit breaker for Britain, bringing forward a new political model and a new economic model,

If we don't have sufficient public control over the cost of the essentials, how can we have control over inflation, public spending, and the rest of the economy?

We will take power out of here and carry it into every postcode in the land so that they can do more.

Fundamentally, it only will work if you can generate significant economic growth, because it’s the lack of growth that’s really holding the country back.

The country is crying out for it.

I will work to build a new politics.

If you look at water as an industry as a whole, it’s run predominantly in the private interest rather than the public interest, or in other words, it’s an industry where the shareholders can never lose and the bill payers never win.

Public ownership is absolutely an option. I would say for Thames Water, that is what should be done.

I am acutely conscious that there has been seven prime ministers in the last decade.

That’s what we’re going to do, everybody. We’re going to give them hope back.

I don't think many people know what he stands for, what he's looking to deliver, what he's looking to do.

I will lead a decade-long plan to transform Britain by transferring power out of Whitehall and giving regions the ability to control essential utilities, transport and housing.