The PM's former aide asked the most senior civil servant responsible for contracts to sign off the budget immediately.

The former UKIPer accused the charity of acting like a "taxi service for illegal trafficking gangs."

“This is madness. It would be like France hammering British holidaymakers due to a Covid outbreak on the Falkland Islands.”

"Thank you Nigel Farage & Daily Mail for criticising the incredible work the RNLI does to rescue migrants. I'm now donating every month," one person said.

Nick Thomas-Symonds, Labour’s shadow home secretary, said Johnson had lost control of his “vanity yacht”.

A man who puts ideology above all else is not a man who should be trusted.

"We are seeing the end of Johnson's 'vaccine bounce'", pollster Chris Curtice said.

"In my shops we employ lots of ex offenders and they wear a shirt and tie. Same people, different approach, a much better outcome."

“If you are guilty of anti-social behaviour I don’t see any reason why you shouldn’t be out there visibly paying your debt to society.”