Politics

While rejecting fears that Putin has already anticipated penalties being imposed by Western countries, Cleverly insisted the West’s sanctions will have “a meaningful impact”.

"These are dark days for Europe," the former Brexit Party leader said.

Sir Lindsay also stopped Labour MP Imran Hussain from raising concerns about Commons Leader Mark Spencer facing accusations of Islamophobia.

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.