Andy Burnham: “It was only right to expect higher standards of your friends than your enemies. You don’t give your mates a free pass to…”

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.

Let's accept there's a different view there, and then work on what we can work on together, what we can agree on.

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.