Andy Burnham: “What a journey from child refugee to parliament and what a country, that this story of hope could happen here.”

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.

That is my view. I communicated it to the first secretary [sic] very clearly, and he has a different view.

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.

We all have to move beyond the constitutional questions