I am proud of what Labour achieved in Government and of the part I played. I have the most ministerial experience of all the leadership candidates and have held some of the most difficult jobs in politics. I was a minister at the Home Office and the Department of Health and joined the Cabinet as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, before being appointed Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport and then Health Secretary.

But I bring more than just experience: I bring passion and the ability to inspire.

As your leader, I will reconnect Labour with its roots. I will support and strengthen the trade union link and I will recognise and utilise the talent that we have throughout the Party. I will end the London-centric approach within our party and ensure that our own structures reflect the devolved settlement we worked so hard for.

I will bring forward big ideas in the best traditions of the Labour Party and I will do so under the banner of Aspirational Socialism, taking the best of old and new Labour and building a strong future for our Party.

In government, we became dangerously disconnected from ordinary people. As leader, I will help kids without connections get on in life, giving them the opportunities for training and education they need and demolishing the barriers to the major professions that are all too present for those from lower income backgrounds. I will make sure all internships are paid and open to all, not just those in the know. And I will continue to champion comprehensive education which offers vocational and academic qualifications, engaging kids and enabling them to get more out of school.

I will fight for the thousands of families who are going out to work, doing the right thing, but who still feel the odds are stacked against them. I will establish a National Credit Union to give those families access to the banking services that others take for granted, enabling them to get lower utility tariffs and ending the downward spiral into debt. I will also allow local authorities to buy properties owned by absentee landlords, bringing them into the social housing stock and up to scratch, offering local communities access to homes.

I will celebrate our ageing society, and I will take the fear out of getting older by setting up the National Care Service. The NCS will be free at the point of use and will give older people the care they need and give their families peace of mind too. It will be for this century what the NHS was for the last.

And as we build the National Care Service, I will fight the Tories' plans to dismantle and denationalise the NHS with every breath.

Experience, passion, inspiration: that is what I bring to this leadership race, that is what will take Labour back to government and that is why I am asking for Compass' support and your first preference.

Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP