Andy Burnham
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The main piece being, for God's sake, get some new running shorts.
The King's Fund report said that the Conservatives left the NHS in intensive care in 1997.
We have nursed the National Health Service back to health.
The Right Honourable Andy Burnham, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.
Remembering any loss of life on this scale is painful.
It is even harder when a tragedy was no natural disaster, but entirely man-made.
When it involves so many young people, and when those who lost most have suffered so many more dark days ever since.
But today, as the Prime Minister has asked me to convey...
96 fellow football supporters who died will never be forgotten.
And he asks us to think at this time.
These papers are stronger than I thought they would be.
What we see is what we've always suspected, that immediate attempts were made to blame the 96, their friends, families, fellow supporters, and take the blame off the police.
And that's why I say Hillsborough is one of the biggest injustices of the 20th century.
Are you disappointed you haven't done better, that your name isn't out there with people who might win?
No, I came into this campaign to say what I needed to say.
I don't think that's right at all.
I mean, I agree with him on some things, such as more public control and public ownership of the railways.
But I disagree with him on other things.
Patriotism is to love who we are and what we have been and be positive about it.
Nationalism is to think we are better and look down on everyone else.