“The tense situation requires steady leadership from people who want to bring communities together, not hateful racism that stirs up division."

“It’s very clear that we should have closed the border to India earlier and that Boris did not do so because he didn’t want to offend Modi,” one Whitehall source said.

“I have not seen this level of destruction through my 14 years of work,” an emergency rescue official said.

The news reader said he left the restaurant "convinced Boris was for Remain" after he wrote down arguments for and against on a tablecloth.

This is the weather forecast for London today.

Edwin Poots will replace Arlene Foster as leader of the DUP in the coming weeks.

The Tories now have a 13-point lead over Keir Starmer's Labour.

Ministers are hoping surge testing and the acceleration of second vaccine doses can allow a safe opening up of the nation.

The gesture prompted predictable calls to "keep politics out of sport" from some corners.