Yvette Cooper: “On behalf of the government, I want to issue a profound apology to them.”

I’m sorry for the unthinkable pain caused by those historic practices, because what happened to those parents should never have happened and we need to ensure it can never happen again.

We will deliver the first-ever legally-binding fair pay agreement for care workers with minimum standards of pay and conditions across every employer.

We don’t treat violence against women and girls as the epidemic it really is. So here’s what we will change.

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