Andy Burnham: “I want local communities to be given greater public control of essential services.”

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.

That is my view. I communicated it to the first secretary [sic] very clearly, and he has a different view.

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

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.