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“He took away all our local advice services, thousands of local police officers, he reduced funding for refuges, took away access to justice, he made a killing from his failures, we had to suffer because of them," Jess Phillips said.

“We are disadvantaged people and this school gave us a way to move up," one pupil said.

Far right commentators dismissed the racist claims at the time, saying "lots of tweets came from abroad".

Charity Open cages said "you cannot sell them in your store, profit off their deformed, weak bodies, and then claim to take animal welfare seriously."

"Anti-lockdown protestors are storming BBC Television centre, to protest to a TV company that isn't there any more about a lockdown that isn't on any more," wrote one Twitter user.

Elsewhere, the Government has refused to rule out new licences for oil and gas in the North Sea or a new coal mine in Cumbria.

“The duty of the RNLI is to save anybody who is at sea, regardless of where they've come from, where they're going, who they are, and people just seem to be overlooking this fact."

Dan Wootton described UN climate change warnings as "hysterical" and "purposely provocative."

The free market thinktank particularly objected to O’Brien’s dismissive description of an IEA representative as “some Herbert”.