He said he could not condone Hancock’s behaviour “in any shape”.

He accused the administration in Dublin of only advocating for the nationalist side of the community in Northern Ireland and ignoring the concerns unionists have over the imposition of Irish Sea trade barriers under the terms of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement.

"When even Matt Hancock doesn’t play by the rules, it’s time to say #EnoughIsEnough," one person said.

One woman, who has been living in the UK since 1977, fears her state pension may be at risk because she was wrongly registered under the EU settlement scheme with her birth name.

"It cannot be the case that it is one rule for the Tory elite and another for the rest of us," SNP deputy Westminster leader Kirsten Oswald said.

"Finding cancer early, when treatment is more likely to be successful, is one of the most significant opportunities we have to reduce the burden of cancer."

And yet the same minister insists Brexit “was self-evidently the right thing to do.”

"Why would only UK vaccinated people avoid quarantine? If you are vaccinated it does not matter what your residency is," one person said.

But the police officer could be paroled after about 15 years.