The prime minister’s spokesperson has confirmed that the UK will ease visa requirements for people fleeing conflict in Ukraine.

On Sunday the home secretary, said some emergency adaptations would permit 100,000 Ukrainians to apply for a UK visa.

The government has been criticised for previously permitting just immediate family members of UK residents to travel to the UK under free visas.

No 10 has now said this definition will be relaxed to include Ukrainian refugees who are adult parents, grandparents, adult children or siblings of people legally settled in the UK.

The home secretary Priti Patel is set to outline further details to MPs later today.

The government previously committed to accepting 100,000 additional refugees from the estimated 7 million the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine could create. However earlier today Boris Johnson tabled a 200,000 figure.

This comes as the prime minister visits Poland, where he has met with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, telling a joint press conference that the two countries “have stood shoulder to shoulder so many times in the last hundred years, that crisis in now upon us.”