Politics

"Poor Germans. This wasn’t the Brexit narrative fed them by their press, was it?", Lord Moylan tweeted.

“Soon, they will be brought under the regime of an increasingly digitised and aggressive hostile environment,” activists have warned.

“Sack him, publish the private emails and hand them over to the public inquiry," Angela Rayner said.

“We all think Matt Hancock was really stitched up on this,” a senior Whitehall insider said.

The UK information commissioner said official records must be kept for key decisions in order to ensure government accountability and transparency.

"Boris Johnson claiming he sacked Matt Hancock will really anger the man who said the matter was closed, Boris Johnson."

Richard Burgon said the new health secretary has spent the last year "lining his pockets" while NHS staff have been working hard getting communities through the Covid crisis.

Downing Street has said the Prime Minister did not sack Matt Hancock as health secretary, shortly after Mr Johnson appeared to suggest otherwise.

"The chicks see you, they look at the Tony & Guy haircut and Marks & Spencer suit, and they just see a piece of meat."