Burnham told BBC North West: "I take my responsibilities to the Hillsborough families and everybody who's been involved in the campaign. To be honest, I am going to do my own communications, I don't want to work in the way that perhaps people have done in the past by doing things for certain" BBC North West: "But will you write for The Sun and will you give them interviews?" Burnham: "I'm not going to go into my precise media arrangements, but it's clear what my position it" BBC North West: "Is it? Can you just make it clear?" Burnham: "It had been made clear" BBC North West: "So you confirm you won't do that?" Burnham: "I won't be doing any special interviews, no"

Burnham told ITV Granada as part of his pre-conference interviews: "I believe very strongly that we should let this be a matter for clubs and supporters to decide. You don't have a law that just has that blanket discrimination. Let clubs come up with arrangements. That doesn't mean that you have drinking in the stands available across the whole stadium. You might have some areas where it is... I don't see why at the Hill Dickenson Stadium, someone watching rugby league that can stand there with a pint, whereas someone who's an Everton season ticket holder can't. I personally don't think that's right. And also I don't agree with those who say it be like a box park. Well it isn't. People can carry drinks into football stadiums now. They don't just throw them at the pitch or each other. So I'm afraid, that's suggest to me that people are commenting who don't normally go to matches. And these are just my personal views"

Asked by ITV Granada in his pre-conference interviews if Manchester City should be stripped of their titles, Burnham said: "I would have to look at the report of the independent commission, and people shouldn't jump to those kind of kind of conclusions. I know, this has been a long process between the club and the Premier League. I think quite a contested process. So I don't think it's as simple as jumping to conclusions. I think we would all need to study the independent commission's report in some considerable detail before reaching any conclusions"

Asked by ITV Calendar whether the next general election will be in 2029, Burnham said: "Well, yes, that's when the next election will be. All of this speculation on an early election, I can I can knock that dead. You know people want me new in office to be getting on with the job of delivering on the things that we've discussed in this interview rather than putting self-serving politics before that, which was what I would be doing if I call an election, I'm not going to do that"

At a hustings last night, he also said Jewish people are making themselves less safe by saying people who criticise the Israeli Government are antisemitic "Far too often, criticism of the Israeli Government and the occupation, what I would call apartheid and genocide … many genocide scholars recognise it as a genocide [and] calling it that is not antisemitic. I think, as a Jewish community, we need to come together to recognise that when we call that antisemitic, we are making ourselves as Jewish people less safe"

Update: A No 10 source says this is "complete nonsense" "The PM has ruled out an early election"

The funding will help deliver essential healthcare, clean water, sanitation and hygiene services, waste management and protection support to people affected by the conflict in both Gaza and the West Bank Miliband said: "It is vital that civilians in Gaza have unhindered access to aid. The UK is pledging a major new package of aid to provide much needed healthcare support to those desperately in need. We urge the Government of Israel to listen to our Call to Action and take steps to end its unacceptable restrictions on Gaza"

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