Politics

The Tory secretary also claimed the British Army “kicked the backside of Tsar Nicholas I in 1853 in Crimea” and claimed “we can always do it again”.

Trump said Putin had responded to the "weakness and incompetence and stupidity" of the Biden administration.

Starmer will pledge to build "a new economy and a new Britain" in a major speech on Thursday.

“The European Union will respond in the strongest possible terms," Ursula von der Leyen said.

Martin Lewis, the MoneySavingExpert founder, said the government's plans are a "working-life-long graduate tax".

“This shows how the post-Brexit increase in custom costs to UK consumers is really biting," a senior manager at an accountancy firm has said.

Matthew Elliot is among a string of murky connections linking the Conservative Party to Russian money.

Tory ministers spent most of last summer telling footballers to stick to football after they staged anti-racism protests. Has the party changed its mind?

A Foreign Office minister said many British citizens of Russian origin oppose Putin.