Politics

“It’s another punishment, you don’t need that on top of the punishment you were given,” he told TLE.

Two Labour MPs accused ministers of “playing politics” with the travel alert system, and said it was only opening up the UK to nations “it stands to benefit from economically”.

"Steve, I bring terrible news. It’s your Brexit. It’s your ‘fiasco’. You were at the epicentre of the policy-making elite who pushed it through, without scrutiny, in the harshest terms possible," Sue Perkins tweeted.

Peter Stefanovic's video has sparked urgent interventions in parliament and a string of questions about the PM's conduct.

The government admitted this was “not the desired outcome”, but will not extend the deadline for the shift to UK safety rules, arguing the new checks are a matter of sovereignty.

A No 10 source denied the claims, describing them as, “risible, like much of Dom’s recent output”.

"This Government seems allergic to scrutiny: redacting some documents, hiding others from public scrutiny and failing to protect evidence from destruction."

"I’m going to report this blatant example of cronyism to the man responsible for rooting out cronyism", wrote David Schneider.

Sir Keir's announcement pleased climate activists, who feared he was backing away from radical climate action.