Politics

If a deceiver deceives a deceiver, does one of them eventually end up telling the truth?  

Once again, Ros Atkins has concisely summarised the government's response to an escalating crisis to devastating effect.

“Priti Patel tries to give you the impression that we’re moving heaven and earth to help Ukrainian refugees when we’re doing less than any other country in Europe," the LBC presenter said.

John Whittingdale was the group’s honorary vice-president when it first launched and attended the opening with his then office aide Carrie Symonds, now Carrie Johnson, wife of prime minister Johnson.

The former Commons Speaker refused to make any ‘faux apologies’ despite a damning report by Parliament’s Independent Expert Panel.

"Under any normal administration that in itself would be a resignation matter," the veteran MP told the House.

Quoting Churchill, he said: "We will not give up, and we will not lose, we will fight until the end, in the sea and in the air, we will continue fighting for our land whatever the cost."

It comes as the US secretary of state Antony Blinken reinforced the message Moscow’s campaign was faltering and said Ukraine “can absolutely win against Russia".

Meanwhile, Poland has received an extraordinary number of Ukrainian refugees: over one million, prompting The Spectator to call it a “humanitarian superpower”.