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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.

“We need to start to recognise that limited access to the right labour markets could compromise our ability to move at the pace at which we need to tackle climate change," Scotland's leading climate group said.

Liz Truss said Russia has a “clear responsibility” to end the escalating migrant stand-off between Belarus and Poland, adding the UK “will not look away”.

The Sunday Times reported the Transport Secretary – who the newspaper says owns a £100,000 aeroplane – “set-up and diverted public money” to a new team within the Civil Aviation Authority which is designed to lobby against planning developments that infringe on airstrips.

“I didn’t want to go out in an ambulance. I want to walk out with my head held high.”