John Healey: “What’s happening in the Middle East is hitting inflation, it’s hitting growth, it’s hitting borrowing costs.”

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 a sign of resilience in the UK economy that some had not expected

Despite conflicts in the Middle East and Europe hitting people across the world, today's figures offer more proof of Britain's resilience in the face of these global shocks.