Andy Burnham: “We have taken a decision to deploy nationally aerial firefighting support, so commissioned nationally.”

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

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.

I was proud of the reception that the UK gave to the Ukrainian president yesterday.