Andy Burnham: “It is time for Whitehall to accept that growth cannot be ordered from the top down - it can only be nurtured from the…”

This is me making an offer to the Scottish Government. With us working together, there is no limit to what we can achieve for the Scottish people.

We obviously have close conversations with our US counterparts, and what I’m going to do is build that bridge and make sure that we’re still all working together to support Ukraine.

It is quite clear once again to the world who the aggressor is in this conflict, and we will use whatever influence we have got as the UK to bring the parties together behind President Zelensky and Ukraine.

Through No 10 North, we are rewiring the state and I want to make sure regions in Scotland are fully part of this.