Sir Keir Starmer's Q&A after his speech this morning: The Labour leader would not be drawn on whether he still stood by a commitment to abolish university tuition fees.

Sir Keir said: "University tuition fees are not working well, they burden young people going forward. Obviously we have got a number of propositions in relation to those fees that we will put forward as we go into the election.

"But I have to be honest about it, the damage that has been done to our economy means that we are going to have to, and we know we will, cost everything as we go into that election and we will do that with discipline as we have done it so far.

"I am not going to spell out our manifesto in advance… but I can say that every commitment we make will be absolutely fully funded. That is a cast-iron guarantee as we go into that election."

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