Andy Burnham: “Our long-term ambition is clear: to achieve equivalent living standards across all the regions and nations of the UK.”

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 consumes too much energy. Get into the things that can make a difference in people's lives now.

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

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.