“My brother-in-law worked as a lorry driver up until this Saturday, he resigned. A lot of my friends who are lorry drivers left the UK as soon as the new Brexit rules came into place.”

Mr Yousaf said the nursery said there was no place available for his two-year-old daughter – only to offer a place to the child of a white friend.

“I’m not crying, you’re crying," British high jumper Emily Borthwick said.

"It is proof that those at the forefront of the Leave campaign had no idea of the disaster they intended to visit upon us."

'My god. Absolutely buried by 10:30am on a Sunday morning,' wrote one Twitter user.

Tongan Princess Mele Siu’ilikutapu Kalaniuvalu Fotofili said:“We are grateful to your government for making the right decision to apologise. To right the extreme, inhumane, racist and unjust treatment, specifically against my community, in the Dawn Raids era.”

Unfortunately, data from the Road Haulage Association seems to point to a different reason for the lack of drivers.

The caps were introduced following the financial crisis when bankers received multi-million payouts despite huge losses.

If successful there might be a second vessel called 'The Galloping Grimes' or 'The Hovering Hopkins'.