Vivien Waterfield, deputy CEO of Home-Start UK, said: “For some families, Christmas can be an especially difficult time of year."

"Try being the parent of a disabled child," one person told Nick Ferrari, while others labelled his suggestions "inhuman".

"The reality is that Truss cares more about her reputation with the Tory party faithful than she does about what’s in Britain’s interest."

He wrote in the Sunday Times in October: “Misogyny is not just a problem for women, it’s a problem for us all. Far too often there is silence when this takes place, and through this inaction we are failing each other and wider society."

The then health secretary told the public that limiting contact with people is still the "single most effective thing that you can do" mere minutes before the gathering.

In another judgment published last year, Sir Andrew McFarlane ruled that Sheikh Mohammed had “ordered and orchestrated” the abduction and forced return to Dubai of two of his adult daughters: Sheikha Shamsa, in August 2000 and her sister Sheikha Latifa, in 2002 and again in 2018.

“The Human Rights Act has a 20-year track record of delivering justice, including for some of the most vulnerable people in our society."

"That well known virologist Iain Duncan Smith is sounding over confident," wrote one Twitter user.

"The Daily Hellscape telling us to ignore the ‘gloomy scientists’ is peak UK dystopian energy," wrote one Twitter user.