Andy Burnham responds to growing pressure around his relationship with Man City's owners after 'secret freebies from Abu Dhabi chiefs were DELETED from the public record'

Andy Burnham has defended himself after being accused of 'covering up' links to Manchester City following a register of interests being 'deleted'. The Prime Minister came under fire for his comments in support of the crisis-stricken club's Abu Dhabi owners following the seismic guilty verdict that rocked football, before backtracking and vowing to release all material from his dealings with them. But he now stands accused of misleading the public after a deleted register of interest showed he joined Al Mubarak twice in a luxury box at City's Etihad Stadium, while he also accepted tickets to an Ed Sheeran concert…