The Daily Star simply refers to the PM as “Captain Cock-up”, while The Mirror said it is Plan B for us and plan 'lie, lie, lie' for him.

Amid mounting public anger Allegra Stratton, who was the Prime Minister’s spokeswoman, resigned.

The Bill also gives Border Force officers powers to turn migrants away from the UK while at sea, and makes it a criminal offence to knowingly arrive in the UK without permission.

A Liberal Democrat win in a Leave-voting rural constituency would send shivers up the spine of the Tory Party, one analyst said.

Newspaper editors and BBC executives were in No 10 on the day Boris Johnson attended a leaving do for a departing aide.

"I will regret those remarks for the rest of my days," she said. 

“They’ll refuse anything – ‘I’m not going to wear a mask’, ‘I’m not going to get vaccinated’, ‘I don’t think climate change is happening’, ‘Covid is a hoax’, and, you know, ‘Hillary Clinton is actually a reptilian shapeshifter’.

"We were grieving it was making us angry that people were being so stupid – and then we find out now that the Government was complicit in all this and they were having their little parties.”

As many as 53 per cent of voters want Johnson to resign over the Downing Street party fiasco, a snap Opinium poll found.