Andy Burnham: “It's critical to safeguard the future of the base, and that matters to us for security reasons, but also clearly to the…”

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.

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.

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.