Wes Streeting: “It's why Andy Burnham's leadership matters, because I have no doubt that he will prioritise this issue.”

An unbelievable volume, because people cannot cope with the idea that a gay person might lead the armed forces of the United Kingdom.

I sort of went in with the aim of saying, I think we can show a different way of doing politics in terms of how we debate the future of the Labour Party and how we conduct ourselves in a contest.

In my first week, someone in the MoD said to me: 'As a gay man, I'm really proud that we have our first gay defence secretary - It means a lot to many of us who remember the bad old days.'

And I think, 'great, here we are in the third decade of the 21st century it doesn't matter, brilliant'.