We will shortly be closing the politics live blog for today. Thank you, as always, for reading the updates and for all the messages and comments. You can keep up to date on all the Guardian’s UK politics coverage here. Here’s a summary of the key events and stories from today: Keir Starmer welcomed the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, at Downing Street on Friday, calling the visit a “real piece of history”. The Ukrainian president was greeted by the UK cabinet with a standing ovation as he became the first foreign leader to address the cabinet in person since 1997. Starmer said the UK will “double down” on backing for Ukraine, and confirmed he had accepted this morning an invitation to visit Ukraine again in the future. The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, asked Keir Starmer to “show your leadership” and help with Ukraine’s “long-range capability”. In his address to the UK cabinet Zelenskiy said “if the restriction on western weapons is lifted” it would help Kyiv to strengthen its defence and secure its frontline positions. He said “it is possible to destroy” areas in Russia where weapons are being concentrated. On long-range capability, the president said “we are still missing the main answer to this question” and told the prime minister “I ask you to show your leadership” on the issue. The government will overturn the suspension of UK funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (Unrwa), foreign secretary David Lammy has said, adding that Britain will provide £21m in new funds. He told the Commons on Friday: “We are reassured that after Catherine Colonna’s independent review, Unrwa is ensuring they meet the highest standards of neutrality and strengthening its procedures including unfettered.” The worldwide IT crisis was discussed by UK government officials who attended a meeting of the Cobra emergency committee. The prime minister did not attend the Cobra meeting as he was hosting the Ukrainian president at a meeting the cabinet at the time. Britain will not help Ukraine hit targets in Russia, the defence secretary said. John Healey was speaking hours before Zelenskiy was due to address a cabinet meeting at Downing Street on Friday. Healey did not rule out accepting the Ukrainian president’s request to use British-made missiles against Russian territory, but added that Britain would not be involved in any such attacks. The UK will provide military aid funding to Ukraine “for every year for the rest of the decade,” John Healey said. The defence secretary told Times Radio: “If we take the starting point that the defence of the UK starts in Ukraine and if Putin wins in Ukraine he will not stop there, then we must stand with Ukraine, we’re determined to do that.” The government has begun setting up its promised curriculum and assessment review, looking at what is taught and tested in England’s state schools, with the announcement that a senior academic, Prof Becky Francis, will lead the review. The review was a Labour manifesto pledge at the general election, and is expected to report back in 2025. Speaking on Friday, armed forces minister Luke Pollard welcomed the “effort by Border Force to make sure that we are tackling that cross-Channel smuggling operation that’s going on”. Asked whether there was a new policy for Border Force to return small boats to France, he told LBC Radio: “We’ll be working out the full policy and how it works. I’m afraid it’s not as simple as taking every single boat back to the French shore. But what we have seen is French ships intercepting some of those dinghies travelling across the Channel and returning to France. We’d like to see more effort put in place like this, so we’re stopping that illegal trade.” Long-awaited changes designed to protect individuals from having to sell their homes to meet large social care bills must be further delayed because of funding and staffing shortages, the leaders of England’s largest councils have said. Plans to introduce a cap on social care costs – which would limit people’s lifetime care cost contributions to a maximum of £86,000 – in October 2025 will be impossible to deliver, the County Councils Network (CCN) said. Keir Starmer’s promised “reset” of the UK’s ties with the rest of Europe has drawn a positive response in European media, with one longtime journalist rejoicing that she will never again have to cover “Britain as a basket case”. Working parents could be hit with unexpected tax bills because of a clampdown on the misuse of a childcare “benefit” offered by some employers that lets people enjoy savings of up to £10,000 a year. HM Revenue and Customs has turned its sights on some workplace nursery benefit schemes which allow employees to pay the fees out of their pre-tax salary, resulting in them making big savings on income tax and national insurance.