Andy Burnham: “At least it creates that sense of a more balanced country, and that big things can be done from here.”

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

I am utterly determined to prove wrong the SNP leader’s prediction that I will be the last Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

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.

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.