Definition: In this task, a passage will be given and the goal is to identify an event from the passage. An event is defined as a single word representing something that happened, is happening, or may happen. An event can be factual or hypothetical, positive or negative, certain or uncertain. While most events are based on verbs, an event can also be based on a noun (ex. storm, snow, rainfall) or a copula verb (is, was, been, etc.). The event must not be a pronoun or an adjective. For noun events with multiple words, use the last word in the phrase as event.
Input: Passage: John Yates, the Metropolitan Police officer leading the investigation into allegations of "cash for honours", said last month that detectives had conducted 90 interviews. Of these, 35 were linked to the governing Labour Party, 29 to the main opposition Conservatives and four to the Liberal Democrats, Britain's third biggest party.

conducted