Charities said such a tragedy was “the horror we dreaded” and repeated calls for safe and legal routes for asylum seekers.

The evidence suggests that the public school Oxbridge types have had their day. Lining your own pockets is picking ours.

He said the comments were “politically motivated” and were “orchestrated” by people outside his constituency.

"If there's one message I could get out there, it's that even when this is all over, there are still struggling people in our communities, and we cannot walk away from them."

"Our findings suggest the influence of an insidious anti-Black and anti-Indigenous logic to police violence that warrants further exploration into the role of these factors in fatal police encounters."

“We call on the Westminster government to end privatisation of testing and to reinstate and invest in NHS primary care, public health, and NHS laboratory services, and redirect the resources from the current private testing programmes back into the local primary care, local NHS labs and local public health sector.”

"Kids are going hungry when they're not at school, I can't make it any simpler than that, minister".

Two adults and a five-year-old child are reported to have died.

“This has been a terrible year for many families, and they should at least be able to have a Christmas without worrying about how they are going to feed their children. This is modern Britain, not the Victorian era.”