Sunday shows round-up: Minister ‘absolutely confident’ No. 10 did not pressure Sue Gray

Andrei Kelin – Russian war crimes allegations are ‘a fabrication’

Clive Myrie took the reins of the BBC’s Sunday Morning show, and the centrepiece was a pre-recorded interview with the Russian ambassador Andrei Kelin. Myrie confronted Kelin with evidence of war crimes by Russian soldiers in Ukraine, as in the town of Bucha and the razing of Mariupol. Kelin spent the interview stonewalling most of Myrie’s claims:

Brandon Lewis – If we don’t stand up to Russia now, what’s next?

Myrie went on to interview the Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis. He asked Lewis if the UK government was prepared to ask Ukraine to cede territory to Russia in order to end the war:

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I ‘am absolutely confident’ that Sue Gray was not under pressure

Sophy Ridge asked Lewis about the Sue Gray report into the Partygate affair. She sought assurances that Gray had not been pressured by the Prime Minister or others to pull her punches, after reports to the contrary in the Sunday Times: