Dave Doogan

The only thing that has fallen under Andy Burnham is living standards.

Burnham must wake up and take action now rather than issue more of these vague jam tomorrow promises.

Andy Burnham’s promises are being broken or deferred for a decade – whether it is cost of living support or defence, we need urgent action now.

His decision to vote down reforms this week looked weak then, it looks horrendous now – we need a full U-turn from the Labour Party and a review into Westminster donations.

This latest scandal again exposes the broader reality of a murky culture in Westminster that falls far short of the transparency that is required of a functioning democracy.

The latest in a long line of scandals must finally finish Farage - he must resign and we can hopefully put an end to a political career that has caused so much division and damage.

What we will do is continue to fight for the democratic right of the people of Scotland to choose their own future – and voting SNP is the only way to lock Nigel Farage out of power in Scotland and secure an independence referendum.

Unlike the Labour Party and the Tories, the SNP will never work with Reform or do any deals with them.

The SNP is clear that the very real threat of a Nigel Farage Reform UK government makes it all the more important that Scotland has a choice over our future with an independence referendum.

The key point I was making, albeit clumsily, is that the SNP will demand Scotland’s democratic right to choose our own future is respected, regardless of who is in government at Westminster.

We absolutely couldn't stand there and say, ‘Well, we could do this or we could do that with them, or we could do that with them, but we don't really like their politics’.

The pursuit of Scottish independence is at the forefront of everything we do.

We'll negotiate with anybody, we'll help anybody into power, but you don't need to be the last word and psephologist to know what the SNP will demand in exchange for that support.

The fact that the UK government has taken over £400 billion of Scotland's energy wealth, and hoarded it at Westminster, while the Labour Party destroys thousands of Scottish energy jobs, underlines why Scotland needs independence so we can…

This is not the 'change' that Andy Burnham promised – and it means most families will be worse off this winter.

Just one month into the job and Andy Burnham has already broken his promise to cut the cost of living – as household bills soar on his watch in Broken Brexit Britain.

This week has witnessed one economic warning after another – with the UK looking set for higher prices at the pumps this September, even higher energy bills come October and food prices soaring ahead of Christmas.

Good vibes and good social media will do nothing to ease the cost of living crisis for families – the Burnham government needs to urgently set out how they intend to put money in people’s pockets.

The next damaging wave of Westminster’s cost of living tsunami is about to hit and yet all summer Andy Burnham has had his head firmly planted in the sand.

Andy Burnham should listen to those economic sirens that are ringing louder by the day and act to protect families ahead of this autumn and winter.

Burnham has endlessly boasted about confronting the big issues, but he has completely ignored the biggest issue on the horizon for families this autumn.

People in Scotland don’t want to hear any more empty promises about ‘hope in their hearts’ – they want money in their pockets.

Concerns about heatwaves will soon turn to heating bills – the first test of Burnham’s listening skills will be to put right Keir Starmer’s broken promise to cut energy bills.

If Andy Burnham is actually serious about listening, he should start by living up to all the promises the Labour Party made to the public – and then rapidly broke – to get themselves into Downing Street.