Summary

  • Defence Secretary Wes Streeting says "we stand with President Zelensky" and calls for "strong Western unity" over of Ukraine

  • It comes after Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned President Donald Trump's announcement of a deal to import Russian diesel into the US - Trump later said Ukraine needs a new leader

  • Shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith says there is a "big issue" with the cost of energy, but "if you want a peaceful world, you don't do that sort of deal"

  • We won't be providing regular text updates on this page

Live Reporting

Edited by Imogen James

  1. Kuenssberg guests react to Trump's diesel deal with Putin and row with Zelensky

    Wes Streeting on Laura Kunessberg

    That's it for this week's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, where Conservative and Labour guests were grilled on their responses to Donald Trump's announcement on Friday of an agreement with Moscow to suspend sanctions on Russian diesel exports until 7 April.

    Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned Trump's announcement, to which the US president later responded, saying "it's time for Ukraine to get a new president".

    Defence Secretary Wes Streeting told Victoria Derbyshire, who is stepping in for Laura Kuenssberg: "We stand with President Zelensky".

    He said that the government wants "to see strong Western unity in resolve and support for Ukraine" and sees it as its responsibility to "try and bring our friends back together".

    Shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith said Trump was "wrong" to blame the rise in cost of diesel on Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil refineries.

    He said there is a "big issue" with the cost of energy but that Trump's deal with Putin sends "all of the wrong messages", adding: "If you want a peaceful world, you don't do that sort of deal".

    First Minister of Scotland John Swinney was asked about his ambitions for Scottish independence.

    He said the "only way" Andy Burnham can "prove that he will not be the last prime minister of the United Kingdom" is by giving Scottish people "a choice about their own constitutional future" and agreeing to an independence referendum.

    We're shortly ending our live coverage - thanks for joining us.

  2. Streeting to be questioned by Victoria Derbyshire after Labour retains Starmer's former seat

    Jamie Whitehead
    Live page editor

    Wes Streeting arriving at Downing Street carrying a dark red folder which reads Secretary of state for defenceReuters

    Defence Secretary Wes Streeting is in the hot seat this morning speaking to Victoria Derbyshire, who is stepping in to host Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.

    For Streeting, it comes at the end of a week which saw his Labour Party see off the challenge from Green Party leader Zack Polanski in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election.

    Camden council leader Sagal Abdi-Wali held the north London seat for Labour, but the party's majority was reduced from 11,572 to 3,364.

    The by-election, triggered after former Prime Minister Keir Starmer stood down as an MP, had been seen as a key test of whether Labour under Andy Burnham can win over voters who have switched to the Greens.

    Polanski has vowed to stay on as Green Party leader after his by-election defeat, as he faced pressure from within his own party to resign.

    Also appearing on the programme this morning are shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith and Scottish First Minister John Swinney.

    We've also got an interview with Richard E Grant and Christine Baranski coming up.

    We will not be providing regular text updates this morning, but you'll be able to watch the programme from 09:00 BST by pressing watch live above, and it's also on iPlayer and BBC One.