Andy Burnham: “I will not pursue a kind of crude approach, crude cuts to benefits to get the welfare bill down.”

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

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.

Obviously, it’s been a difficult few days for President Zelensky, and that’s why I invited him to the UK to give him that lift, and to see what more we could do.

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.