Andy Burnham

We need to get much more serious about improving high streets and listen to what people are saying.

I do agree with what [Nigel] Farage is saying.

We need to make greater use of detention so that people who have got no basis for a claim are not actually admitted into the country.

My view is that Brexit has been damaging, but I also believe the last thing we should do right now is rerun those arguments.

We need a different path completely. What is that path? Put more things back under stronger public control: energy, housing, water, transport.

What I am calling for is the reform of these Home Office contracts. I do agree with what [Nigel] Farage is saying.

We do need to go further. We need to make greater use of detention so that people who have got no basis for a claim are not actually admitted into the country.

We have a country that is being run by spreadsheets in the Treasury as opposed to operators.

Andy Burnham has backed a cut to VAT and as Manchester mayor he represents one of the most vibrant and exciting cities in the UK with a growing food scene.

I think we need to make greater use of detention so that people who’ve got no basis for a claim are not actually admitted into the country [and] dealt with quickly and there’s a speedier return.

I’ve said to my team, let’s have a proper look at this and let’s develop a policy.

I would seek to represent you at the highest possible level and give this constituency maximum power and influence.

We’ve got in trouble in the past when that happens, so no, I think the approach that Keir has taken is the right one.

I’m sympathetic to that, because I’ve been on the record of saying that before. This thing I’m announcing today isn’t the be-all and end-all.

Normally you would want a good relationship with the US, but if you can’t agree with them, then say that as well. That’s the only way I think to deal with him.

But I do have concerns about the disproportionate nature of what has happened in terms of the destruction, and there has to be a full process of investigation and accountability.

I can’t judge things of that enormity from where I am as mayor of Greater Manchester.

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I have said that I thought the weight of the burden on employers’ national insurance wasn’t the right decision. However, it was the decision.

The public are rightly furious about this situation. I think what we have to do is draw a line and say that the public interest has to predominate now over the private interest.

I certainly would support the point about bonuses in terms of criminal consequences for people who fail to deal with sewage and the spills that we’ve seen.

And you prevent the excessive profiteering out of water, which we’ve now seen over many years.

If you look at water as an industry as a whole, it’s run predominantly in the private interest rather than the public interest.

I would say for Thames Water, that is what should be done.