People don't measure growth by looking at a spreadsheet. They measure it by looking at their local high street. Are shops opening or are the shutters down? Does the place feel like it's moving forward or being left behind?
On the importance of local high streets in measuring growth.
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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.
Let's accept there's a different view there, and then work on what we can work on together, what we can agree on.
Through No 10 North, we are rewiring the state and I want to make sure regions in Scotland are fully part of this.
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.
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