"I don't need Sue Gray to tell me I went" to a party, the shadow climate secretary said during a blistering attack on LBC.

One reader called the group "deluded", while another questioned why they show a "relentless lack of faith in their own country".

It came as Britain’s cost-of-living crisis is expected to worsen with energy bills soaring by more than 50 per cent.

A leaked email shows the prime minister's principal private secretary invited more than 100 staff to a BYOB evening gathering.

“As Brexit has been busy falling flat and failing to find any opportunities, the European Movement has been quietly building up its membership," Mike Galsworthy told TLE.

Judging by the replies many staff were appalled by the idea, with one asking why Martin Reynolds was "encouraging a mass gathering in the garden" and another saying "is this for real?"

It will come into effect on April 1st – the same time the Government’s controversial rise in National Insurance payments comes in.

"To be unable to help a single mum who lost her partner in covid afford her energy bills leaves me feeling impotent."

The Peace and Justice Project party could be set up if Corbyn is unable to run for Labour in Islington North.