Andy Burnham

Running the country is a serious business. You can’t just get swept up in moments and emotions and impulses and the fleeting things and the drifts of social media.

There’s no point being here because you’re here. I won’t name names, but I do think I have seen people in parliament, Westminster … they get to something because they want to do that something.

I don’t think he’s ever realised, because of his condition, that I’ve come round to PR, which is one of his missions — to get me to accept that.

That’s a sadness because he would be (proud). The way I look at it, it’s his achievement as well.

We must be honest about the challenges we face and call for reflection and resolution.

We need more stable and responsible politics.

I promise to give people breathing space on the cost of living.

I had long been persuaded of the argument for a land tax to replace both council tax and stamp duty.

I’m personally keen to see reform of council tax.

On the personal allowance, I’ve heard on so many doorsteps, and I’ve said to my team, let’s have a proper look at this and let’s develop a policy.

I am ready to use some of my political capital on this issue.

Those will be my first calls and I'll be making very clear later today to President Zelensky that there is no change.

Well, I just reject that entirely. They (critical briefings about Mr Miliband) haven't come from my team and I'm appalled at those briefings.

We need to face it and fix it.

I will bring forward a new plan for Britain, a 10-year plan laying out a path from where we are now to where I believe we all want Britain to be, wherever we're coming from, whatever party we support.

I did not want to create divisions, but that in the future an option might be having to ask for a little more.

The path we’ve got to lay is quite a long one. It can’t be done overnight. You’ve got to show people where we’re going and the steps towards it.

A concept I will talk about tomorrow is a 10-year plan for the country. I think that’s what it needs.

You have to rethink how we run things to get a different approach to public spending and running the economy which is much more focused on early investment, early intervention, setting people up for success and much less paying for failure.

Let’s build a new national sense of unity, of common purpose, and positivity. Let us make this the moment when Britain starts to believe again, the moment we bring back hope.

I will put the care of people at the heart of everything I do … Let us make this the moment when Britain starts to believe again, the moment we bring back hope.

I will soon go through that door behind me and issue my first instruction – to end rough sleeping in our country.

Later this year, I will bring forward a new plan for Britain, a 10-year plan.

We will make this moment a circuit breaker for Britain, bringing forward the biggest changes in the last 40 years.

I know people at home are fed up with politics. I hear you and I want to be honest with you: we have not been good enough and we need to be better.