Politics

Volodymyr Zelensky urged every fit military-aged Ukrainian man to take up arms and defend the country against Russia.

Brexit will be a "boon to the terror groups already active inside and outside Europe’s borders, to the Russian dictator who is crashing through those borders, and it would reduce the ability of the UK and Europe to resist these assaults."

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.