Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner and Newcastle Central Labour MP Chi Onwurah have expressed their solidarity to those affected by the Ukrainian crisis.
Ms Rayner and Ms Onwurah both spoke at the opening of the Labour North Conference in Newcastle on Saturday, just days after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion on Ukraine.
Ms Onwurah opened the conference by taking a moment to show her respects to the "people in Ukraine [who] are fighting for their rights and their very lives".
