Politics

“If Westminster maintains its control, recent history shows what Scotland can expect: an economic recovery hindered by a hard Brexit that is already taking a significant toll and the continued, systematic undermining of devolution, which is weakening our parliament’s powers to maintain food and environmental standards and protect the NHS from post-Brexit trade deals."

Laurence Fox, Piers Corbyn and Count Binface have been unable to get a look in so far, although Peter Gammons is on track for 2% of the vote.

"The referendum was five years ago now, we don’t want further division. We accept we’ve left, we’ve got a deal, let’s make it work.”

An article the Prime Minister wrote for a Canadian magazine in 1997 has been doing the rounds on social media.

“There is a real fear at the moment that he is attempting to marginalise the left. Now we seem to be travelling in a direction that is turning the Labour Party into a party of the establishment."

Elsewhere, Professor Jeremy Brown, a member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), warned a “very large number” of at-risk people could develop a “serious” Covid-19 infection if restrictions are lifted now.

“This is public money, and the processes involved in decision-making should be fully transparent and beyond reproach. We need a full and thorough investigation into what’s happened here.”

"The scars are deep. Independence would be Brexit Mark 2."

Downing Street has also spent more than £2.6 million on refurbishments to hold White House-style press briefings.