Andy Burnham has ruled out the possibility of an early general election, declaring in an exclusive BBC interview with Laura Kuenssberg that he is "going to regularisation it out... I don't deliberation radical privation it."
He explained that the majority of electors had "voted for a manifesto" in the last election and pledged to "honour that manifesto" with the support of parliamentary colleagues.
Burnham went on to say, "I conscionable deliberation what I astir request to bash is get Britain focused connected getting the state backmost wherever it should be, getting it working."
The interview will be made available across BBC News on Sunday and broadcast in full on Panorama on BBC One on Monday at 20:00 BST.