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"As openings to major news bulletins go, this takes the biscuit, the cake and the whole bloody patisserie", Owen Williams said.

A day of ‘chaos’ is sprawled across the nation’s papers, with The Sun dubbing the government "broken" and Mail turning on Truss too.

Senior Tory MP Sir Charles Walker said what took place was “inexcusable”.

National Highways has said it has no estimation of when the bridge will reopen.

“When I’m asked about it, I become a part of it. My voice adds nothing to that discussion and I’m sort of embarrassed that I’m somehow drawn into it", he said.

‘The great office of Prime Minister was yesterday reduced to an unedifying game of ghost-hunting,’ The Sun writes in an editorial.

"The government is not listening to rationality, to common sense, to their own advisors and nobody is holding them to account."

"We could say, no, as taxpayers, we're going to stand up for ourselves. We're going to demand a return on our investment and we are going to take it back into our hands".

"Downbeat predictions on the economic consequences of leaving the EU have turned out to be overwhelmingly correct", Jeremy Warner said.