Lucy Powell

Protecting free and fair elections is above party politics. We all have a stake in ensuring that elections are decided by informed voters—not by bots, manipulated algorithms or foreign interference.

Today, millions of people get their news from social media, yet our laws haven't kept pace.

This is not about my job or anybody else’s job, this is about creating jobs in every part of the country and making sure that people have got opportunity, hope, well-paid decent work, they’ve got a home they can afford to live in and…

If we had more control over things like skills and local transportation we could better connect people to all those new job opportunities of the future.

He's got a really strong agenda about changing that.

People want us to get on with the job and deliver the change they want to see.

I think we were in very particular times after Liz Truss crashed the economy.

Now we've all got to get behind that leader and stop the kind of infighting and chitter chatter from the background.

How refreshing that would be - that the whole Labour Party is agreed on the new leader and we don't have to go through a contest that could be damaging at this point in time.

I'm pleased that actually what it looks like is we're probably going to have just the one candidate in Andy Burnham.

The shine is well and truly coming off Reform.

As a woman in politics, I am more than a stand-in for a man!

I might disagree with some of Thomas Tuchel’s decisions for the England squad - Phil Foden in particular - but I’m fully behind him, Harry Kane and the team as the World Cup kicks off this week.

Decent pay, security and dignity for workers

Nigel Farage is getting desperate - the shine has come off Reform

We should go further … to regulate social media and tackle the scourge of dis- and misinformation which is ripping communities apart and undermining us all.

We need to do more to regulate the algorithms and what drives contention and controversy and the business models of big, big tech as well.

The spread of mis- and disinformation is a real and present danger to our democracy.

I fully support him being the Labour candidate in the Makerfield by-election, adding I have it on good authority there's going to be absolutely no attempt to stop him from running.

We've got to do our politics differently, we've got to end the factionalism, we've got to embrace all the different traditions of the Labour Party, all the different voices and bring one team back together.