Andy Burnham has made his first foreign trip as prime minister to Ukraine.
Whilst there he agreed to share secret details of how to make British components for French-manufactured long range missiles.
The prime minister also refused to rule out tax rises in his autumn budget saying he "won’t be unrealistic", as he spoke exclusively to ITV News in Ukraine.
Burnham said the public need to understand that "we are in a challenging position".
"I won’t take risks with people’s jobs or livelihoods or their family finances and I will try to help them in whatever way I can," Burnham said.
Also on the programme:
– Twelve suspects arrested by detectives investigating the events leading up to the wrong-way crash on a dual carriageway in Cleveland, which killed seven people, including two police officers.
– Iran warned that new U.S. sanctions on Tehran announced Monday would not bring peace to the region. Meanwhile, Israeli and Syrian officials met less than a week after Israeli strikes in Syria. And Israel said it killed a Hamas commander in Gaza.
Also on the programme:
– Reporting from the Robot Olympics.
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