Louise Haigh: “We cannot afford to wait any longer before we change the system we inherited.”

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.

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.

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