Member

This is politics done differently: problem-solving over point-scoring. It is what the country needs, it is what the public want more of, and it will characterise my time in office. I was pleased to begin cross-party talks over social care in the summer, and I thank the leader of the Liberal Democrats and the right honourable Member for Daventry, Stuart Andrew, for the spirit in which that endeavour began. I wish the latter well as he leaves the Opposition Front Bench.