Alastair Campbell

Exactly, that's...

The UK budget presented by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves.

So we'll do that Wednesday afternoon.

This is a sort of budget, UK budget-free zone.

Diane Stevenson, tripless member from Hampshire.

Does the rest of Europe...

the democratic parts anyway, not realise that Putin has to be rolled back here and now.

Why are we hesitating?

Is it that we can't do without the USA or are we really so stupid to think he won't continue to invade if he's allowed to?

So there's a lot in that.

Now, we went through the, I think you're doing a huge service by calling it a plan, the US-Russia plan.

I think you mean the US-Russia 28-point paper.

I think you'd be struggling to call it a plan.

What has happened since then, as we suggested it would, is that the Europeans and the Ukrainians have pushed back.

Now, we went through it point by point.

And I think what we should do in the newsletter is try and put side by side the US-Russian 28 point, quotes, plan, close quotes, and the counterproposal by the EU.

Because it's a very clever piece of rewriting.

I do, I have to say, detect the hand of Jonathan Powell in some of it.

Just to give you a couple.

So the American text said Ukraine's sovereignty will be confirmed, okay?