clarified

FireAid also clarified that “a stipulation of the FireAid funds communicated to each grantee that not a single dollar was allowed to be spent on administrative costs to ensure maximum benefit.”

Sir Mark said police will have to "make similar decisions in future unless the law and guidance is changed or clarified".

"We'll give them good protection," he said, though he clarified it would not mean sending US troops to Ukraine.

But the minister has since clarified that guidance, telling councils the population size of 500,000 or more was a "guiding principle, not a target".

Last year, Lucas suggested the city could benefit from asylum-seeking immigrants joining the local workforce, then clarified that he meant immigrants who were in the U.S. legally.