Thank you for that warm welcome. Thank you for that warm welcome. Many of you will have woken up this morning to scenes of explosions in cities across Ukraine. The whole world is rightly appalled at Russia’s unprovoked aggression. The Prime Minister has called this an attack without provocation and without any credible excuse When the sovereign freedom of one democratic nation is threatened, wherever they may be in the world, democracy everywhere is challenged. As such, if our commitment to freedom is to mean anything, we must, acting in unison with our allies, apply severe economic cost to th…