Politics

“The purpose of this Judicial Review challenge is to undo the great wrong which was done in the imposition, without consent, of arrangements which leave Northern Ireland as a rule taker of foreign laws – over which we have no control, the United Kingdom partitioned down the Irish Sea and trade fettered disastrously with our biggest market."

And Boris Johnson is now the second most popular Conservative politician.

Downing Street said it moved ‘at speed’ to get the judgment struck out.

Lakhvir Singh, who was locked in the back of the van for 8 hours, said: "I'm so happy that my fate bought me here to live in Glasgow, where the people will come out onto the streets to help one of their own."

He refused to tell the MPs how much he stood to gain from his involvement. There were suggestions he was to make £60 million.

Boris Johnson, on the other hand, has reportedly moaned to friends that he “can’t afford to be prime minister”.

Mr Rees-Mogg replied: “I fear it is absolutely classic from the socialists – they don’t have any confidence in their own voters."

The latest citizen to speak out about their experience is an Italian woman, who said she was “taken to prison” and she “burst into tears”.

"The truth is", she said, "most people don't read manifestos."