"Sadly, the opposing team is hellbent only on scoring own goals."

The working from home levy would cost an employee earning £35,000 just under £7 a day.

Lord Rooker praised the peer for his actions at the last election, saying: “I understand he performed a national service.”

The communications director is not the first person to walk away from Number 10

Britain becomes the first European country to register 50,000 Covid19 deaths.

One well-placed Whitehall official said Number 10 had become a "nest of vipers", adding "it's all falling apart in there, it's far worse than the outside world realises."

Labour’s analysis of PR spending by the Government revealed the vast bulk of the £130 million was part of a four-year deal with Manning Gottlieb OMD signed in 2018, rather than a response to the pandemic.

"Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods in school. And the person that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool."

According to a House of Lords report around 340,000 UK adults are addicted to betting.