“All I want is for the BBC in this instance to come forward and honestly make an apology. Because it’s had a huge impact.”

It is alleged Andrew used the puppet to 'grope' Virginia Roberts, then 17, and Johanna Sjoberg, one of Epstein's former sex slaves, then 21.

"We can’t do it effectively if those cases are not also being self isolated and their contacts traced. It’s going to make it much more difficult."

"He is undermining almost two decades of work establishing our reputation for producing genuinely reformist and evidence-based policy research."

Government would reinstate controversial clauses that enable ministers to break international laws if Lords try to strip them out.

"The UK will now be conscious of the fact that they have a US president who’ll be focusing in a completely different way to Donald Trump on the impact of the Brexit deal."

Biden warned that the Good Friday Agreement cannot be “a casualty of Brexit” and said a UK-US trade deal would be dependent on the peace terms being upheld.

"Confiscate the dogs and a big fine for the “tally-ho I can do what I want because I’m rich” brigade."

“The people of Scotland overwhelmingly reject Brexit and the narrow, isolationist stance of Boris Johnson’s Government and believe Scotland will prosper as an independent country.”