Lord Sugar’s enterprise revolution could create up to 800,000 new jobs around Britain, according to new figures published by Liam Byrne MP today.

The Apprentice star has been appointed by the Government to encourage more people to start their own business all over Britain.

Britain’s enterprise economy risks going into reverse as new House of Commons library figures commissioned by Liam Byrne MP, reveals over 1 million people have left ‘entrepreneurial activity’ in the last three years.

Great entrepreneurs change history - by inventing the future. And if we want a great future, we need to help them, not only fail better. We need to help them succeed.

I am giving a speech this morning- that sets out how the Labour Party can unite around the fight against inequality with a #NewClause4.

Liam Byrne will today call for the Government to hand powers to the West Midlands to become the country's enterprise and engineering capital

Below is the full text of my John Smith Annual Finance Lecture; The New Opportunity Economy. There's a bit of a trail in the Guardian today.