Lara Bird: “I made it clear in my campaign that I entered politics to serve my local community and my country and that's what I…”

That move alone would lift an estimated million children out of poverty overnight - that’s what a government and a party that is serious about ending child poverty looks like.

We need young women in politics. And I think that the ease and comfortability of directing so much hatred towards me can be pinpointed at the lack of accountability on social media as one example.

I think there's a really strong chance that we have a hung parliament in Westminster.

Andy Burnham must follow Scotland’s lead by matching the SNP government’s cost-of-living support for young people – including in areas like free bus travel for under-22s, where many young people in Scotland are saving over £1000 a year…