Minister signals government won’t stop MPs voting to publish Andrew trade envoy documents – UK politics live

2026-02-24 - 10:43

MPs to debate the release of documents relating to the appointment of ex-prince Andrew as UK trade envoy Keir Starmer has paid tribute to the “the incredible resilience of the Ukrainians” and urged people to “defeat the falsehood that Russia is winning” the war it started four years ago. Addressing cabinet this morning, he said: I wanted also to pay tribute to the incredible resilience of the Ukrainians, and it is incredible resilience. When this conflict broke out four years ago, it was assumed it would be a matter of weeks before Putin took the whole of Ukraine. That’s what everybody believed. The second etched in my memory was last year when I went to one of the busiest hospitals in Kyiv and saw for myself the incredibly awful burns on some of those who had returned from the frontline. Burns the like of which I’d never seen in my life before. And at the same time, I went to a primary school and these children who were five, six, seven years old, had lost both their parents to the conflict. Continue reading...