Andy Burnham: “We’re prepared for all eventualities, including a special administration regime, if that were to become necessary.”

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

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.

During my first week in office, I told the First Minister that I wanted to work with him to spread opportunities to communities across Scotland's regions and cities.