WATCH: Putin ‘pushing the boundaries in military terms’ with attack near Polish border
Gove says this shows how Vladimir Putin is trying to “tighten the vice” on Ukraine as the war drags on.
WATCH: Starmer – Government’s crisis response ‘too slow, too narrow’ and ‘too mean’
“So far, I think the Home Office and the government have got it completely wrong”, the Labour leader tells Sophy Ridge.
WATCH: Gove says UK has issued 3,000 (not 300,000) visas to Ukrainian refugees
The Levelling Up Secretary was setting out how the Government is broadening various pathways into the country.
WATCH: “We will fight till the end.” Zelensky’s address to the Commons.
Ukraine’s President echoes Churchill as he broadcasts to a packed chamber.
WATCH: Government must go ‘further and faster’ on sanctions against Russia – Labour leader
Starmer says economic measures “have to make it impossible for Russia to function”.
WATCH: Raab – A no-fly zone over Ukraine would ‘suck West into war with Putin’
“There’s head and heart in all of this”, but we don’t want “to be sucked into a direct military conflict with Vladimir Putin”, says Deputy Prime Minister.
WATCH: Starmer says still ‘issue of trust’ with PM, but country must unite against Russia
“It’s very important in the UK and in our politics that we show the world we’re united”, he says.
WATCH: Labour will support increase in defence spending, suggests Healey
“I would expect to see a boost to defence” as “the government must respond to increased threats to the UK”, says the Shadow Defence Secretary.
WATCH: ‘Putin must fail in Ukraine’ but it could take ‘months if not years’, Raab warns
Deputy PM calls on UK to show “some strategic stamina” as war will “not be over in days”.
WATCH: Ending the pandemic – the role for Global Britain
ConservativeHome’s Paul Goodman chairs a panel with Vicky Ford MP, Dr Dan Poulter MP, Romilly Greenhill and Dr Bruce Aylward.
WATCH: Truss warns of the consequences for Putin of a chemical or nuclear attack
“Senior Russian officials should be aware that if they do go into that arena they could well be tried for war crimes in the future.”
WATCH: Lammy on visas. “Why would we ask people what their salary levels are when you’re fleeing war?”
He calls for a “generous scheme” for Ukrainian refugees seeking to come to the UK.
WATCH: “I think we have to have a really adult conversation with the British public” – Kearns
“War is going to drive up our costs,” says the Foreign Affairs Select Committee member.
WATCH: Truss on the war and sanctions. “Yes, there will be an economic cost here in Britain.”
“The sacrifices that we are going to have to undertake are nothing like the sacrifices that people in Ukraine are suffering now.”
WATCH: Lammy is asked whether Labour’s proposed ban on luxury goods would get results
He is quizzed about depriving Putin of “jaguar cars, wedgewood pottery and chocolate truffles”.