“It’s very clear that we should have closed the border to India earlier and that Boris did not do so because he didn’t want to offend Modi,” one Whitehall source said.

“I have not seen this level of destruction through my 14 years of work,” an emergency rescue official said.

The news reader said he left the restaurant "convinced Boris was for Remain" after he wrote down arguments for and against on a tablecloth.

"Instead of attacking the Tories, Keir Starmer has spent more time attacking grassroots members"

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And Boris Johnson is now the second most popular Conservative politician.

Downing Street said it moved ‘at speed’ to get the judgment struck out.

Lakhvir Singh, who was locked in the back of the van for 8 hours, said: "I'm so happy that my fate bought me here to live in Glasgow, where the people will come out onto the streets to help one of their own."

Questions have been raised over why India was only added to the red list several weeks after the mutation was identified as a variant of concern.