John Healey: “Our defence spending plan falls well short of what is required.”

As the UK’s second financial centre, Edinburgh is a fitting host for the G20 finance meeting.

The step back from this is that the future of Ukraine is the future of European security, and that’s why it’s so crucial that Putin doesn’t prevail.

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.

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