Lucy Powell

We are committed to the triple lock. It’s in our manifesto. The triple lock has really delivered for pensioners, in this country, over the course of this Parliament.

The triple lock is really delivering for pensioners right now: over the course of this parliament it's set to increase the value of the state pension by around about £2,000 a year - significant uplifts to the state pension.

I can absolutely assure your viewers watching this that we are committed to the triple lock, it's in our manifesto.

Nigel Farage wants us to all blame immigrants for our country’s ills. He wants a race to the bottom on workers’ rights and deregulation.

We have to be clear-sighted about what we’re doing, who we’re doing it for and clearly articulate that every single day.

Let’s not be embarrassed about that, that’s what we are.

We simply cannot just teach our way out of misogyny.

If you look at the evidence from recent elections – right across the board – it’s clear that whichever party manages to unite its voter coalition is the one that wins.

I want working class, disadvantaged young people to have every opportunity to achieve highly academically.

This is not what we want to see. This is not acceptable.

(You) can't stop everything all of the time.

It's not easy, if we had a switch that we could switch tomorrow to stop all small boats, we would switch it.

We are taking all steps we can to really bear down on and eradicate the small boat crossings altogether.

There’s got to be a better way to give young people the skills and confidence that they need to succeed, not just branding them a failure, and also allowing them to gain other qualifications that show they have a strong foundation in…

We want young people to have that deeper understanding in literacy and numeracy but across a range of subjects.

It’s a hamster wheel with many young people constantly being branded a failure and having to resit.

The treadmill of failure of GCSE English and maths.

The idea that academic and technical education are rivals competing for status belongs in the past.

That’s not a coincidence — it’s a consequence. It’s his legacy.

Getting all those young people — and the generations to come — back on the road to success is my priority.

One million. That’s how many young people from the education system Michael Gove presided over who are now left outside education, not in employment and not in training. That’s not a coincidence – it’s a consequence. It’s his legacy.

The one-size-fits-all approach simply doesn’t suit all children. For some it’s become a straitjacket. A straitjacket that has left too many being branded a failure – again and again – instead of being able to realise their potential.

What most people wanted to know was not what we thought about other political parties, but what were we doing? What were we about?

I’m not here to worry about private schools. I’m here to worry about state schools.