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

It's not created competition. What you've seen is bills going up and up and up over years and years and years.

This Government is determined to help thousands more young people gain the skills, experience and confidence they need to build successful careers.

We need a Labour government of all the talents, representing our broad church movement, all parts of the UK and that looks like our diverse country.

And I’m not going to sort of change my opinion on that just because I’m now the secretary of state.