Newsnight presenter Kirsty Wark was happy to oblige at the time, although as he hadn't specified which version of the song he meant, she played The Sex Pistols version of the same name.

"Nigel Farage complaining about someone being turned away at a border. What a year already."

He also set up a cancer research foundation in 2009 but barely mentions it. “I don’t like to attach my name to it, I just let the foundation do what it does," he once said.

Questions have been raised over whether the money will be focussed on maximising wildlife benefits or spent in areas of political interest to the Tories.

"If Djokovic has appealed the decision does that mean we all have to clap really slowly til the result comes back?"

"Has he heard of priests?", wrote James Felton.

It is not whether he lies, it is how quickly he can be found out. Where is a fridge when you need one?

"It is shameful that Bristol City Council did not take down the statue of slaver Edward Colston that had caused such offence to people in Bristol, and equally shameful that they then supported the prosecution of these defendants.”

Geoff Hoon said he was told in "no uncertain terms" to burn a secret memo that said the 2003 invasion of Iraq could be illegal.