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Prime minister to be questioned for first time by liaison committee as No 10 says he spoke to Trump on the phone on Wednesday

British troops could start training Ukrainian troops in Ukraine itself, John Healey, the defence secretary, has suggested. He revealed this in an interview with Larisa Brown in the Times. In her story Brown reports:

John Healey said the UK needed to “make the training a better fit for what the Ukrainians need” as he left the door open for it to take place in the war-torn country instead of Britain.

“We [need to] make it easier to the Ukrainians to access and we [need to] work with the Ukrainians to help them motivate and mobilise more recruits,” he said to The Times on a visit to Ukraine.

The prime minister greeted Haji Hassanal Bolkiah at the door of No 10.

They then held a meeting in the White Room.