The prime minister's distant cousin offered to guarantee an £800k loan. Weeks later he appeared on a list of suggested candidates for a £250k a year job with the British Council.

In a letter to the home secretary, those who were homed on the barge in Dorset described it as “an unsafe, frightening and isolated place”.

Tory MPs are likely to be the biggest beneficiaries of the new ruling.

Volodymyr Syrotiuk settled in Brighton and has joined Brighton and Hove Buses as a driver.

“If you challenge an election, you should be able to challenge an election,” he told reporters on the airport tarmac.

Putin described Yevgeny Prigozhin as ‘a man of difficult fate’ who had ‘made serious mistakes in life’.

Two thirds of Conservative voters also want the tactic currently being pushed by Rishi Sunak’s party to be outlawed

Among the beneficiaries are Jeremy Hunt and Oliver Dowden, who received Chelsea flower show hospitality, theatre tickets and trips to Ascot.

"They all think we are f*cking stupid", one person said.