"I don't think this tweet was as successful as he thinks," said one person in response to the barrage of replies to his comment.

“There are hundreds of thousands of jobs in the UK that frankly British workers don’t want to do."

Stiller told President Zelenskyy: "It's great honour for me. You are my hero. You quit a great acting career for this."

Greater inequality now, combined with the greater impact of inflation on lower paid, public sector workers meant the “standard rhetorical arguments” about corporate profits and bosses’ salaries rising could have more impact.

Mr Melenchon’s coalition – composed of his own hard-left party, France Unbowed, the Socialists, Greens and Communists – will make it harder for Mr Macron to implement the agenda he was re-elected on in May.

"Good to know Keir is a proud trade unionist. Or at least he was in 2020," tweeted the former shadow home secretary.

"Rowan Atkinson is such a hypocrite- in Mr. Bean he no platformed speech!"

"If Grant Shapps spent as much time negotiating with the RMT as he does touring around news studios, then we might not have a rail strike today."

"Brian Bilston is a truly fantastic poet in this modern dystopia," wrote one person after reading his poem.