“I really fancy a trip with my family to eat chips in Brussels but there’s a global pandemic on right now."

The comments came as significant amounts of Scottish seafood was left to rot as exports were tangled in Brexit bureaucracy.

“It is critical – 1,041 people reached out to us to say ‘please help me eat food today’ and that is a cry for help. That’s a hard thing to do, so that means it’s really hard out there."

"Churchill told us to be magnanimous in victory," he tweeted.

The rules requiring travellers to have a negative coronavirus test will now come into effect at 4am on Monday.

This is the weather forecast for London today.

The price spike comes amid warnings from hauliers that delays at Calais and other French ports are set to deteriorate further.

“It is an astounding number of preventable deaths from one cause in one year, absolutely astounding number. It’s a sign of a phenomenal failure of policy and practice in the face of this new and dangerous virus."

The former Labour leader was suspended from the party for claiming that the scale of anti-Semitism was “dramatically overstated for political reasons”.