“There’s no longer time to give the Prime Minister the benefit of the doubt. The Government’s plan simply isn’t working. Another course is needed.”

Years of unpaid taxes - up to as much £50,000 - on two homes built in breach of regulations will be forgotten, despite investigators finding that Cummings is liable to pay council tax on them.

"We don't need #HS2. It's 100% the Emperor's New Clothes syndrome. We're investing in old technology, the need is outdated."

"There is no point in having high environmental and welfare standards if you then allow them to be undercut from outside" - Gove.

It comes after they ignored scientific advice to bring in a short national circuit breaker last month.

Biden is on course to win 325 electoral votes to Trump's 213.

A separate report published by the government department, looking at trends during the coronavirus pandemic, warned that rises in racially or religiously aggravated hate crime in June were a third higher than the previous year and remained high in July.

If the 19th Century was Britain’s and the 20th Century was America’s, the 21st Century will undoubtedly be China’s.

“While Covid-19 generated a large international health and economic crisis from which it will take years to recover, it is crucial to remember that climate change will continue to pose an ongoing and increasing threat to human lives, ecosystems, economies and societies for centuries to come."