Lucy Powell: “the treadmill of failure of GCSE English and maths.”

The privatisation of water hasn't worked. It's not created competition. What you've seen is bills going up and up and up over years and years and years. Investment not being made... and then now these companies are in real distress.

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.

He [Burnham] really understands the bigger, bolder measures that are needed to live up to the manifesto promises.

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…