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“Of course, I think things could certainly have been handled better, let me put it that way, by me," the prime minister has said.

One resident who is a lifelong Tory voter said he is considering voting Labour because the Tories  “seem to fall down on promises”.

“This is absolutely sick. Jab passports and quarantine are not jokes. Leave it out of Christmas please," one person wrote.

It comes as Liz Truss, UK’s foreign secretary, said this weekend that Putin has to intervene in the “shameful manufactured migrant crisis” unfolding at the Belarusian border. 

Prime minister Boris Johnson's handling of the UK's own affairs may have also weakened Britain's leadership by example.

Jurgen Klopp said country leaders should not be voted in based on who is the “most funny” or has the “weirdest haircut”.

"At the moment we’ve got a Prime Minister who says do as I say, not as I do – and I think that sends the wrong message out," Angela Rayner has said.

It comes after Rees-Mogg led the government’s recent attempts to rip up the Commons’ standards rules to protect former Tory MP Owen Paterson from a lobbying row.

He insisted the money for the tribute was "mistakenly added" to his expenses and that he would "happily" pay for it - once it was pointed out to him.