We want to aspire to get as far as possible and what we've done as a government is put more investment in that, the £39bn for social and affordable housing grant funding that we want to get out the door.

No, my severance payment was given to me at the time, I had worked in government for a period of time and then I came out of government for just under a year.

The situation I went through last year was really difficult, it was difficult for my family, but I felt I'd let people down and I never want to let people down, I want to fight for them.

Keir will have to reflect on that.

I don’t think that Nigel can shrug this scandal off and hope that it goes away. I think this one's got lots of legs and it's gonna carry on running.

The red card was given. To reverse it because someone powerful says, 'You need to reverse it' - I think that goes against fairness and it goes against the spirit of the game.

Whitehall empires hoard their own power.

We cannot build a new economy here without addressing one of the root causes of the old one's failure.

The Devolution Act gives all mayors London-style planning powers – a new framework that can be expanded and built upon... The act is the beginning, not the end, of breaking away from the command and control culture of Whitehall that has…

This needs a much deeper cultural change across Whitehall and the scale of that challenge can’t be underestimated.

The scale of the challenge demands we go further and faster.

This week Andy Burnham put forward a vision of good growth in every British postcode and hope in every heart.

But we will not defeat him with caution. This is a time for boldness—a time for courage.

The answer is devolution: real devolution, not the begging-bowl culture of the past, where regional politicians came to Whitehall with their caps in hand, asking permission to run their own bus routes.

We must show we understand the scale of change the moment calls for – that means bringing our best players into parliament.

If you challenge me - where did it all go wrong - I think it's where we've deviated away from our promises to the electorate.

Let's look at how we can help and assist in that area before we turn around and say to young people, you need to be paid less.

I don't accept that the way to give young people a future is to give them insecure work that isn't paid.

I just see Farage as same old Thatcher.

If we have more of that, it is not going to help rebuild our country, it's going to damage our country.

I don't want a representative who thinks it's okay to make sexist, misogynistic jokes and then double down on them.

Too many people feel politics is happening to them rather than for them, while too many communities still believe Westminster has failed to understand the pressures they face every day.

Winning back trust will not happen through slogans, briefings or endless debate about personalities. It will happen when people see secure jobs, affordable homes, shorter NHS waiting lists and safer streets.

I don't think it's too late for the Labour Party to deliver that, and that's a different question.

We shouldn't take retrospective action on carers that we asked to come to this country to work.