Andy Burnham: “If I could secure that then the vast majority of the public would expect us to take it.”

During my first week in office, I told the First Minister that I wanted to work with him to spread opportunities to communities across Scotland's regions and cities.

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.

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