The company, a subsidiary of G4S, was accused of misleading the MoJ over the extent of its profits.

The new charges come as Britain and Iran negotiate the release of some £400 million held by London, a payment the late Iranian Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi made for Chieftain tanks that were never delivered.

"Yes, this does break international law in a very specific and limited way," Brandon Lewis said.

“I think what the UK is saying is that we’ve attempted to disrupt negotiations – they’ve actually been able to do that themselves without any difficulty, they didn’t need our help to do so."

The performance by former winners Diversity showed dancer Ashley Banjo acting out being arrested by a white police officer who, in a reenactment of the death of George Floyd earlier this year, kneeled on his neck while bandmates cried out, “I can’t breathe”.

"He is a person of enormous personal modesty. He is not someone who has ever wanted to push himself into the limelight. If he has done this it demonstrates that he must see what they are doing as a terrible insult to the law."

"It’s an absolute shambles. No home tests available. And now the nearest test centre is Oldham, a 100-mile round-trip with a sick child."

Two-thirds of participants in the study said they intended to either switch to the private sector, move abroad or take a career break within the next three years.

Who would have thought, in the 21st Century, that the party of John Smith, Keir Hardie and John Maclean would be marching into an election under a banner of middle class sport, state broadcasters, militarism and the Royal Family?