Yvette Cooper

Bush's actions were utterly abhorrent, and my thoughts remain with all the bereaved families in Hull who were so badly let down.

We cannot have employers getting round the rules or finding different ways to deviate.

I will face numerous challenges in the role, including getting NHS waiting lists in England down, improving relations with senior doctors and making progress on social care.

I want to make it a personal crusade to put the cradle back at the heart of the NHS.

There’s maybe a difference in style of operating.

The Prime Minister’s drive to reform social care has largely come from Andy because it’s something he’s been passionate about.

Starmer had a style of leading the Government that maybe doesn’t necessarily work in politics.

Andy Burnham was an improvement on Keir Starmer.

We need to take the health consequences much more seriously, so that everyone is ready when they come.

But I have also been clear that the NHS now needs to plan for summer pressures in the way we currently plan for winter pressures.

The extreme heat is hitting public health and our NHS. Across the NHS and social care, staff are doing a remarkable job to respond to rising A&E attendances and ambulance call-outs, heat problems among the elderly and difficult working…

I actually want to build that same national consensus on how we start our kids’ lives, so that no future government of whatever party would think, you know what, it’s OK to rip up Sure Start, because actually we establish this as something…

I think Keir’s style of leadership was ‘bring me solutions, not problems’. And I’m not sure you can do that in politics.

Keir wanted the immigration white paper. Actually, we did a lot of the work on it in the Home Office, and a whole set of plans to bring legal migration back under control, a whole set of reforms around illegal migration and so on.

We know Britain will face heatwaves like this with increasing frequency and increasing intensity. So we have to take the health consequences much more seriously, so that everyone is ready when they come.

Our NHS is used to gearing up for these kinds of pressures in winter. But we are going to need the same level of preparation in future summers. I have told the NHS to start drawing up summer plans now in the way they have traditionally…

During the heatwaves in May and June, we saw more than 2,800 lives lost because of the extreme heat, and this year is on track to see the highest ever number of heat-related deaths. My thoughts go out to every family who has lost loved…

NHS staff were feeling A&E pressures that would normally be expected only during flu season – and said the government would use major investment in NHS infrastructure to tackle the health service’s resilience to high summer temperatures.

It will take a bit of time in some areas but 100 right across the country I think will make a real difference to getting people mental health support early.

This is how we can turn the tide on mental ill health - preventing more people from reaching crisis, cutting waits for care, and building an NHS which is there for everyone when they need it.

Charity systems are abused to funnel support to illegal settlements and some evidence suggests that rules are being broken.

Of course it’s not easy. I really did not think it was possible to win the election when I came back into the shadow cabinet in 2022. It’s only because of what Keir did that we managed to win.

In the end, the most important people in the maternity services are the mothers, babies, the families. But the point of having a maternity commissioner is to make sure that those issues are championed as part of an NHS.

We’ve always said the NHS is about the cradle to the grave. I want to make it a personal crusade to put the cradle back at the heart of the NHS, and to have much more focus around maternity and child health, the very beginning of a…