Politics

"This edition of #TheWeekInTory falls on April Fool’s Day, and there’s an obvious temptation to slip a fib into this. I didn’t. So if you feel fooled, it’s only cos some of you voted for these gibbering apes."

£50 fixed penalty notices have reportedly begun arriving in the email inboxes of junior civil servants.

Despite the incident taking place on April Fool's Day, it appeared it was a genuine error as Lord Blunkett was seen with his head in his hands after the speech.

Kit Malthouse receives an extra £31,680 for his government job on top of his £84,144 MP salary.

The former Tory leadership candidate had Twitter users gasping and checking the date with his intervention.

“When people laugh at your response, what does that make you think?”

“Actually, it’s very upsetting and, I think, wrong for people to try and come at my wife," the Chancellor told the BBC.

Liz Truss was reminded of a similar bill making its way through UK parliament as she hit out at China for undermining "fundamental rights and freedoms".

The Labour leader said families will be £2,620 worse off under the Conservatives as the cost-of-living crisis bites.