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It comes as Jacob Rees-Mogg claimed the government parties allegedly held during Covid restrictions are “disproportionate fluff” and “fundamentally trivial”.

“I don’t think those two situations are directly analogous, clearly they are not directly analogous and I don’t think the prime minister was saying that they were directly analogous," the chancellor said.

Labour said the scrapping of "Putin's propaganda factory" should have "come much sooner".

"As far as the snowflake generation is concerned, a real crisis will be when Waitrose runs out of quinoa", he wrote.

"You’ll be amazed to discover that sans headline steam trains are not, in fact, being cancelled," one person wrote in response.

Pushed by Marr to admit it’s harder to sell fish to the rest of Europe now because of Brexit, Rees-Mogg said: “Well, I mean you’re quite right, there were some teething troubles with some scallops and so on but actually that varies considerably.”

“Perhaps it's not a good idea for Richard Madeley to start talking about the war going nuclear to that poor woman hiding in her basement with her three children in Kiev?," one Twitter user said.

"Have you ever cringed so hard you folded in on yourself because that's how I felt reading that."

"Why are the homeless and veterans only ever mentioned when they’re used as an excuse not to help other groups," wrote one person in response.