Liam Gotting

Andy Burnham warns Starmer not to water down Hillaborough law amid expected announcement this week @LBC Speaking to @GlobalGotting he said: "You can see how it's needed now to help people still fighting for justice and I think of the nuclear test veterans but there are other people in that position. "It's one of the big ways in which culture change is needed in Britain, people are feeling at the moment that the country's not working as it should... people have been left in the wilderness for years fighting for justice is a very clear sign of that, the Whitehall system doesn't work often for ordinary people and the Hillsborough Law is a big part of that, big part of that change. "All I can say is we are unflinching in our commitment to the full Hillsborough Law. It's not about accepting, you know, a sort of a watered down version for us. "Obviously there's ways of doing it so that it can be implemented in a way that has the impact, and we're open to those discussions but it can't be anything less than the full Hillsborough Law, which is parity of legal funding for families, bereaved families at inquest where the state is involved, but also that full duty of candour which applies institutionally and individually with criminal sanctions. "These are the changes needed to get the culture change to end frankly, the culture of cover up that we've had in this country for too long."