Applications jumped on Tuesday to double the daily average for the year after Partygate fines were handed out to the PM and chancellor.

"You think there's no one better in your Cabinet than someone who is a proven liar and a hypocrite?"

Laura Kuenssberg congratulated her colleague and 'great friend' on the appointment.

Macron cited his late Socialist predecessor François Mitterrand who in his last speech to the European Parliament said: “Nationalism is war.”

"I intend to do what I can to reduce my own impact on the planet, so to that extent your voices are certainly heard."

One in eight UK adults say they have already gone without heating, water or electricity in the last three months.

“I have no recollection of this at all. Yes, there were various wild parties, very perverse themes expressed… I can’t absolutely rule it out.”

Amber Valley MP Nigel Mills said ‘we have every right to expect higher standards of people making these laws’.

A triple whammy of poor handling of the cost-of-living crisis, a scandal over his family's taxes and now a fine from the police has seen his odds plummet.