Politics

The government faces a backbench rebellion over the controversial plans.

Catch-up tsar Sir Kevan Collins walked away from his post on Wednesday, issuing a stinging condemnation of the Government’s £1.4 billion recovery fund.

“She is seriously considering it but has not reached a final decision,” a source told the Sunday Times.

Johnson is calling on his counterparts to “rise to the greatest challenge of the post-war era” by “vaccinating the world by the end of next year”.

"I am just another guy, who cares where I am from? I’m just another human being. I feel like part of the UK has just turned aggressive against people like me.”

Mr Johnson has been criticised by MPs on all sides for temporarily reducing foreign aid from 0.7% of national income to 0.5% and thereby shelving his 2019 manifesto commitment to maintain spending at the higher rate.

“Labour, under the leadership of Keir Starmer, are letting this corrupt Tory government hand out billions of pounds of taxpayer money to their Brexit-supporting cronies.”

"I didn't see as an opportunity. I now see it as a necessity. There's no point in sort of bleating on about it."

'We’re turning the party around,' he told Morgan