Politics

It comes after Rees-Mogg led the government’s recent attempts to rip up the Commons’ standards rules to protect former Tory MP Owen Paterson from a lobbying row.

He insisted the money for the tribute was "mistakenly added" to his expenses and that he would "happily" pay for it - once it was pointed out to him.

“We need to start to recognise that limited access to the right labour markets could compromise our ability to move at the pace at which we need to tackle climate change," Scotland's leading climate group said.

Liz Truss said Russia has a “clear responsibility” to end the escalating migrant stand-off between Belarus and Poland, adding the UK “will not look away”.

The Sunday Times reported the Transport Secretary – who the newspaper says owns a £100,000 aeroplane – “set-up and diverted public money” to a new team within the Civil Aviation Authority which is designed to lobby against planning developments that infringe on airstrips.

"I happen to write extremely fast. I don't see why on a Sunday morning I shouldn't knock off an article," he said.

“The dangerous and inflammatory rhetoric emanating from Boris Johnson’s Government is now undermining all of the progress we have made in recent years."

"That works out as 71p for every person killed by Covid in Britain," Owen Jones pointed out.

In the past 11 years, 22 of the party’s main financial donors have been given peerages after donating a combined £54 million.