Johnny Mercer told the Mail columnist he had to Google him during the brief exchange.

In 1996 it was reported Hamilton had taken money in brown envelopes from Mohamed Al Fayed in a “cash-for-questions” scandal.

An amendment to the bill has a "good chance to significant support", according to rebels.

“We don’t want our food supply undermined by imported food from countries with poorer animal welfare standards, selling our food production down the river by negotiating cheap deals.”

Shropshire County Council has been widely criticised for using public funds to prop up hunt groups.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, that number increases to 45 per cent among Leave voters.

“But if they do not, and the talk collapse, then it is their failure and incompetence that will have let the British people down.”

"Good news for everyone," Matt Hancock tweeted.

She said her son has been “criminalised for playing with a toy in his own house”.