John Healey: “Being frank, we can’t completely stop the squeeze that families and businesses will feel with a global shock of this…”

Economic growth is my and Burnham’s number one mission in government.

People recognise these times that are tough for everyone, and what they do expect of a government is to manage with the budgets we've got, deliver the public services they need, and that's the challenge.

I’m working on different ways we can step up support for Ukraine: military, diplomatic and economic, and you know, if anybody needed any reminder of that, it’s what we see coming out of Ukraine, with [Vladimir] Putin targeting these energy…

It's really tough in the face of these economic global shocks