The Labour MP told Unbreak the Planet that a Green New Deal must "tackle inequality of power, wealth and democracy".

"No one spends days and nights in the stomach of a truck, feeding on newspaper unless the miles travelled means something more than journey."

"They just think you can, you know, money will solve all your problems, that you can, you know, be paid and just go away.”

"I just love when Ant and Dec take the mick out of Boris," said one amused viewer.

Mrs Merkel told reporters the measure was an “act of national solidarity”.

One Twitter user slammed the commercial as “woke PC propaganda b*******”.

"He had the look of a naughty school boy being told off", one person said, while James O’Brien summed it up by simply writing: “Oof”.

Pete Wishart highlighted a recent poll showing majority support for Scotland to leave the UK in the wake of a number of scandals.

“This is G.R. Eggs, reporting for duty," the high street bakery responded on Twitter.