Andy Burnham: “I will speak soon to the first ministers of all three countries to agree a positive way of working to this end.”

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.

That is my view. I communicated it to the first secretary [sic] very clearly, and he has a different view.

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’s been bombing energy infrastructure in Ukraine.