No 10 says Starmer ‘will not walk away’ if Burnham officially enters Labour leadership contest - UK politics live

Downing Street responded after Andy Burnham publicly admitted that he would consider launching a bid to become Labour leader

• ‘I wouldn’t flinch’: Burnham on social care, markets, Brexit – and the prospect of a general election

We have more comments from David Lammy, who was on the media round this morning.

He rejected the US state department’s criticism of “two-tiered policing” in the UK in relation to the murder of 18-year-old student Henry Nowak.