Andy Burnham

Britain does need something different. We've had a decade where politics really has not been working for people at all. We can't do more of the same.

I think it’s important to, if you like, prioritise and reward the businesses that bring social benefit, the businesses that bring people together, the bars, the restaurants, the coffee shops, the hairdressers, because the high street…

I’m not going to go with the crude cuts to benefit levels that then just put people who are struggling in even worse poverty.

We need an education system balanced between academic and technical and then at 16 I believe we need the guarantee of a work placement for 16 to 18-year-olds and apprenticeships for every 16- to 18-year-old who wants one.

Too many young people get to year 10 at school and they can’t see where school is taking them because the system isn’t focusing on those young people.

Its job will be to make power flow into places like Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee, Paisley and Easterhouse.

I very deliberately have said ‘no, I’m going to set out a new direction for the country'.

I want there to be the most inclusive approach to building the team, so that all parts of the party can see themselves represented within it.

This is about obviously extending the Downing Street operation, creating a North Pole, if you like, so that the country can see that the power is more balanced.

I didn’t answer questions, and some people criticise me for that, but again, I’m challenging some of the prevailing culture, where it immediately will go into a Westminster obsession.

If you build more council homes, you can bring down the housing benefit bill.

I will not defend an education system that is overly focused on the university route and does not lay out paths to technical qualifications for our young people.

So let me be absolutely clear about that but there is some room within that manifesto for movement on tax.

People do want a new direction in politics. A new way of doing things. More doing, less arguing. More power put into places like this.

It's been a little frustrating for me in the last two weeks, because Westminster goes into its normal mode and it wants to endlessly speculate about personalities before policy and before direction.

I do think Westminster needs quite significant culture change. I said this week it didn't feel like the place I left when I came back last Monday.

People are paying too much, but businesses are also paying too much. And that is certainly true of energy.

I'm not going to go with the crude cuts to benefit levels that then just put people who are struggling in even worse poverty, and that often creates the backlash, and understandably so.

I want a Labour administration under my control to oversee the biggest council housebuilding programme since the postwar period.

I will spend time there, because I think it’s really important to show a new drive around taking power out of Westminster.

I am not indisciplined when it comes to the public finances – I was in the Treasury, I ran the Department of Health.

Britain needs more breathing space ... We do need to be serious about putting more money back into people’s pockets.

What I would do, if successful, is lay out a plan for more public control over water, energy, transport, so that over the period we can get those bills down, fares down, and give people and give businesses breathing space.

Britain is paying too much for the basics.

There is some room within [the 2024] manifesto for movement on tax.