Politics

Sir Ed also deemed Gavin Williamson “the worst education secretary we’ve had in living memory” and called on the Government to financially compensate university students for their disrupted education due to Covid-19.

Starmer said Johnson has spent the last few years “cosying up to people who don’t have Britain’s interests at heart and courting the idea that he is Britain’s Trump”.

"The Tory party is no longer the Tory party. It is UKIP that has assumed control of the Tory party. Their goal is clear, to commit economic vandalism and social vandalism on the U.K. "

“It is time for our governments to get a grip of what is now a full-blown crisis, and fast, before severe and lasting damage is done."

The Freight Transport Association of Ireland said stockpiling prior to Christmas had masked some of the effect of Brexit so far.

Boris Johnson has a “sort of language which he’s quite rightly nervous using in front of women.”

In his podcast, Craig Ross said "people have no idea how fat" people who use food banks are.

Secret plans for post-Brexit reforms to UK workplace laws put pay to the ideals of a 'leftwing Brexit'.

Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle intervened and noted: “Obviously there’s no overwhelming evidence for that.”