"We’ve put up a border within the UK. We’ve made ourselves poorer and weaker."

It comes as hospitals in the South face a rise in pressure as the number of coronavirus patients receiving treatment heads towards the April peak.

Far from being a clean break, Britain’s divorce from Brussels is messy, and will continue to be for decades to come.

She will be imprisoned for 4 years on charges of “picking fights and provoking trouble”.

The claims of lockdown sceptics "are often expressed with overconfidence, or without vital context,” the fact-checker said.

More than 400 visitors from the UK were told to go into quarantine. But, according to Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung, at least half fled the resort in a clandestine, “cloak-and-dagger” operation.

It comes as MPs in Britain were preparing to vote on the deal in a special sitting of Parliament called for Wednesday.

“What we have got now is a fraction of what we were promised through Brexit. We are going to really, really struggle this year," the country's leading fishing body said.

“I had someone say, ‘I’ll give you £2,000 for the vaccine’," the head of a private clinic said.