The days of Westminster hoarding power are over.

I will run the Cabinet Office, the department that supports the prime minister and co-ordinates the government’s policies to deliver its agenda.

In response to the continued risk proposed by wildfires, the government has taken the decision to issue an emergency alert to England and Wales.

These new rules will ensure the £90 billion that is spent each year through government contracts supports British jobs, skills and people in every postcode.

If you prioritise everything, then you’re prioritising nothing.

Every pound of taxpayer money should be spent in a way that benefits local communities — creating good jobs and giving young people the skills they need for the future.

We are stripping back what’s known as social value to focus it ruthlessly on that priority.

For too long, [public] procurement has tried to tick too many boxes.

We won't be imposing mayors to areas that don't want it but we will be creating strategic authorities in every area of England and they will be able to hold these powers and resources as well.

We cannot afford to wait any longer before we change the system we inherited.

The status quo is not sustainable.

The way Sir Keir’s first chief of staff, Sue Gray, was treated was absolutely disgraceful.

He has been thinking about this, and certainly planning for this, for this moment, for at least the last year.

You only had to open the papers most days to read the vicious briefing that was happening, the horrible way they would talk about our colleagues to journalists.

Both Morgan [McSweeney] and [Starmer] kept saying ‘well, additional information has emerged’, but at no point would any of them tell me what that additional information was.

To pretend that I hadn’t told him and to brief so consistently and so viciously for quite a number of weeks after that was a deliberate attempt to knock my character down.

The idea that there wasn’t a cabal of men that were deliberately mistreating women around the government is just fanciful.

There needs to be a proper beefed up economic unit in number 10 that both the prime minister and the chancellor have access to, and that can give the prime minister a full suite of advice when they’re making these huge decisions that…

We should enable the newly established National Wealth Fund to borrow against their existing balance sheet outside of the fiscal rules.

This reform is central to restoring confidence that the system does not favour those able to structure their income over those earning through work.

I would not support attempts to invoke the Parliament Acts to force through the bill.