“And the impact of all of this, of not having a proper process in place to deal with ministers, is … we’ve seen trust and confidence completely destroyed.”

“The fact that I, through luck and the support of others, ‘made it’ in spite of social-economic barriers shouldn’t justify our system and society."

It comes after allegations last year some factories in the UK working for Boohoo were paying staff as little as £3.50 an hour and had working conditions which did not meet lockdown restrictions.

“There is no doubt the virus is in the air, there is no doubt that you can catch it if you inhale, and that someone else has exhaled."

"You’ll remember the Prime Minister promised to put his arms around everybody in the UK and that’s not been the case."

"I worry for people like my hijab-wearing mum who (pre-lockdown) deals with abuse at work from racist customers almost every single day but refuses to stop working. Hate crime is very very real."

"No man has damaged our country as much as David Cameron. No contrition, no shame, no apology, still the same arrogant sense of entitlement, still rich, cosseted, oblivious to the misery he has visited upon others."

"Yet another contract, backdated, and given without tender to a firm with close links to the Conservative Party."

One Labour MP who disagrees with party line said: "It should be raised, along with a windfall tax on companies that have made obscene profits."