Opposition to the arrangements that have created trade barriers between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK was a factor behind rioting that flared in several loyalist areas across the region in April.

Frost also claims he considered resigning in December 2017

He will get a £2.5 million payoff and continue to receive other benefits for a year.

"It is not 'contentious', it is wrong. Incorrect. A deliberately bad translation designed to whip up anti-French feeling, anti-EU feeling too," wrote one Twitter user.

“Boris Johnson and his Conservative colleagues’ actions have repeatedly undermined standards in our public life."

On Brexit he said: "It’s like a mask has dropped, exposing this horrible snarling, sneering, angry, jealous face."

"Hid in a fridge from Good Morning Britain," wrote James Felton.

“A stopped train is nothing compared to the two million people displaced by flooding in Shanxi province in China, last month, and those facing famine today in Madagascar.”

Meanwhile, Sir Keir has a 27% approval of the job he is doing, down three percentage points.