Andy Burnham calls for UK to rejoin EU within his lifetime and rejects claim he is fiscally irresponsible – as it happened

Andy Burnham in conversation with the Guardian’s Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey. Photograph: Jørn Tomter / UCL policy lab

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Early evening summary

• Rachel Reeves has confirmed ahead of her speech to the Labour party conference that she no longer stands by a pledge last year not to raise taxes , saying “the world has changed” due to a mixture of conflicts, US tariffs and higher borrowing costs.

• Rachel Reeves has warned Labour figures “peddling the idea” the government could abandon fiscal responsibility to free up more money for public spending were “dangerously wrong” and risked serious damage to the economy.

• Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, has said that he would like the UK to rejoin the EU in his lifetime. He was speaking at a Guardian fringe where he also hit back at claims that he does not support fiscal discipline. (See 3pm and 2.46pm.)

• The Labour party has passed a motion saying Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. (See 5.08pm.)

• Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, has said that a new form of “ethno-nationalism” is taking hold in the UK. (See 5.52pm.)

• Labour plans to consult on the use of live facial recognition (LFR) technology before expanding it across England, the new policing minister has told the party’s annual conference.

For a full list of all the stories covered on the blog today, do scroll through the list of key event headlines near the top of the blog.

Updated at 8.03pm BST

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Jonathan Reynolds, the former business secretary who was moved in the reshuffle, has said that he wants to try a “different approach” in his new role as chief whip.

Speaking at a fringe meeting organised by Politico, Reynolds said:

I don’t think you necessarily have to do a job like it was in the 18th century, even though we kind of like that in British politics.

As Martin Alfonsin Larsen from Politico reports, Reynolds said he wanted to be less in the shadows than previous chief whips. Reynolds said:

I do think fundamentally, you treat people well as a starting point, only a strange type of personality reacts badly to that, but I think we’ve got to recognise that. There’s a chance maybe at times to think about, ‘How can we do this differently?’

Reynolds, whose son is autistic and receives Pip and universal credit, benefits available to disabled people – said that the government’s botched welfare reforms were “not done in a way that took people with us”. He went on:

That’s why we had to have the changes [the U-turns watering down or removing the most contentious plans], and those were important decision that were necessary for the parliamentary party going forward.

I thought there wasn’t sufficient recognition of perhaps my family’s situation, which is, I want to protect the most vulnerable people in this country, but I need public support for the system to do that, and that public support will not be there if we aren’t making sure that we’re running that in a good way.