Andy Burnham: “I’m going to obviously take my time to properly look at the state of things, particularly the state of finances.”

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.

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 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.