They have that right, but it was determined. The future was determined, I would say, for a generation.
Andy Burnham
The Public Record
It's about control. If you strip it back, and all the fluff and the verbiage, you can actually strip it back to one word, which is control.
Well, it's hard to conclude that he's anything other than someone who has racist views.
This is not something we've seen in this country before, and it's not something we want to see.
These have got to be the priorities right now rather than throwing the country into a backward-looking process where we are arguing again amongst ourselves.
The first step the PM could do today, from the podium of his inaugural party conference is to commit to ending the prosecution and jailing of people as terrorists just for standing up against war crimes and genocide.
Continuing the charade of the proscription of Palestine Action is illogical, unsustainable and immoral.
We had hoped the new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, would do the sensible thing and bin the ban on Palestine Action given the weight of public pressure to do so and the escalating amount of resources required in enforcing it.
We need to set out a new direction for the country and I will set that out on Tuesday.
This Labour government is bringing back hope for people across the country.
We will step in to help more first-time buyers onto the housing ladder, especially those who can’t call on the bank of mum and dad.
We’re going to make this a really important week where we set out a new direction for the country. We’ve had a decade since Brexit and it’s been a decade of too much drift, too much division, and we need to draw a line on that.
Somebody needs to grasp the nettle. I will be the one to do that and I realise it might require me to spend some political capital.
Is there any wonder that politics is in such low esteem with the public when it can’t fix something as basic as the care that we give to each other?
To be honest with you, broken social care will, in the end, break the national health service if we leave it like it is.
I will develop a very clear plan, and I will put that plan to the public at a general election.
I describe social care in England as being as unfair as American healthcare, where the most vulnerable in society can lose everything.
For me, obviously, coming in to this journey as prime minister as my dad was ending his, has been hard. But it pushes me on, and I’m going to grasp the nettle on social care.
The job that I have, that the Secretary of Northern Ireland has, is upholding the Good Friday Agreement, and I take that responsibility really seriously.
There have been big gains made in Northern Ireland, and we don’t want to see things go backwards.
“Who is going to do something to actually make it real? I’m saying to you that I am going to address this directly.”
“I think the public want to see, number one, honesty about things. So not spin or putting things a certain way that’s self-serving. They want honesty, and then they want, I think, difficult but real decisions.”





