Politics

Lord Agnew quit last week, hitting out at the government's "egregious" failure to tackle fraud.

A snap poll on Monday afternoon revealed that 65 per cent of Brits don't accept Johnson's apology.

"I can’t imagine there are many circumstances in which Nadine Dorries would defend me, but I’m absolutely certain that there are none in which I’d want her to."

"People, and I think our constituents, want to see us getting on with the job," the deputy prime minister insisted.

“If these proposals involve changing the law in devolved policy areas, then pressing ahead without the consent of the Scottish parliament would demonstrate yet again the UK government’s intent to undermine devolution," a senior Scottish minister has said.

A speechless Nadine Dorries was left only saying "the prime minister tells the truth" after the PM gets caught bang to rights.

It echoes moves made in 2018, when he flew to Afghanistan to avoid a vote on a third runway at Heathrow as foreign secretary.

The SNP leader said - again and again - that Johnson had "wilfully misled Parliament", before being tossed out by the Speaker.

"We have a government plane to conduct government business in the way that all major nations do and I think that’s right and appropriate," top Treasury official Simon Clarke has said in defence of Truss.