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I have updated the post at 9.56am with a quote making it clear that, although Sajid Javid is considering hosting Ukrainian refugees at home, he also doubts he has enough time to act as a proper host. (He is health secretary, which is a demanding job.) I have changed the headline on the post to reflect the new material. See 9.56am.

And here are some more lines on Ukraine from Sajid Javid’s interviews this morning.

I’m starting to have a conversation with my wife on that and I think many households – as you say, and I’m pleased you brought this up – are probably thinking about this across the country.

It’s important that anyone that becomes a host that they can fulfil the obligations of a host, that they can spend time with these families and help, but there are many ways that we can all help and whatever I do at a personal level, I will most certainly be helping.

I do think, for me personally, it will be hard to offer the time that I think a host would reasonably [be] expected to have available to help the family that’s arriving, to help to integrate them into British society.

Not the first place – I don’t think it would be practical to make them the first place – but I do know that that is something that my friend Michael Gove is looking at.

I think there’ll be some legal hurdles to try and do that, but it’s right that he looks broadly to see how we can house more and more Ukrainian refugees.

We’ve had, as a country, a long standing relationship with Saudi Arabia. It’s always been a very frank relationship where we have been very clear with Saudi Arabia that when it comes to human rights, there’s a lot we disagree on. The executions you just referred to are clearly things that we would not support.

It is important to recognise, whether we like it or not, that Saudi Arabia is one of the world’s largest oil producers and at a time of a major global energy crisis that has been caused by this war in Europe and it is right for the Prime Minister and other world leaders to engage with Saudi Arabia, and we’re trying to work together where that makes sense.

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