Nearly 89,000 households have now signed up to provide a home for Ukrainian refugees. A Government minister said he was “actually quite proud” the website allowing Britons to put themselves forward had crashed within the first few minutes of going live.
Some 88,712 households had registered for the Homes for Ukraine scheme by Tuesday morning, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities said, as the Prime Minister aimed to match the efforts at home with foreign action. Boris Johnson is set to travel to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday in a bid to further wean the UK off Russian oil and gas.
Before that, he will host visiting leaders of the Joint Expeditionary Force at Lancaster House, and the leaders of Finland and Sweden. Further sanctions against those connected to Vladimir Putin are also expected to be announced.
