Andy Burnham: “It will remove barriers to regeneration, from council house building to public transport infrastructure.”

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.

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.

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