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The Foreign Affairs Committee said a policy of closing borders will drive migrants to take dangerous routes and push them into the hands of smugglers.

Boris Johnson has been called on to remove Francesca O’Brien as the Conservative candidate for the marginal South Wales seat of Gower.

Paul Sweeney says Tory MP Ross Thomson groped at him in the House of Commons Strangers’ bar, and tried to put his hands down the front of his trousers.

The report also said too many “vulnerable people” were detained, some for years, including those with mental health problems which “sharply deteriorated” in detention, adding: “The indefinite nature of detention also caused great distress.”

Dominic Grieve, the chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament, has accused Johnson of sitting on the report ahead of the December 12 vote.

The missed target comes as an opinion poll revealed that most Brits say climate change will influence their general election.

Labour has also gone on the attack on Boris Johnson after the government failed to bring urgent plans to tackle the climate and environment emergency in time to meet the six month deadline set by parliament.

The announcement comes as the Conservative Government has been accused of misusing public money in Government Facebook ads targeting marginal constituencies which were launched on the day Boris Johnson got the election he has repeatedly claimed he did not want to hold.

The first televised election debate between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn has been set for November 19.