Politics

He said there are two bigger deals the president could potentially do – an EU-US free trade deal and taking America into the transpacific partnership.

It will use an opposition day debate to say eligible families should be guaranteed to receive the full value of free school meals throughout the year.

Last week Jacob Rees-Mogg said fish in British waters are “better and happier” after Brexit.

“We also miss our British colleagues for their pragmatism, and their humour and rhetoric.”

Sir Ed also deemed Gavin Williamson “the worst education secretary we’ve had in living memory” and called on the Government to financially compensate university students for their disrupted education due to Covid-19.

Starmer said Johnson has spent the last few years “cosying up to people who don’t have Britain’s interests at heart and courting the idea that he is Britain’s Trump”.

"The Tory party is no longer the Tory party. It is UKIP that has assumed control of the Tory party. Their goal is clear, to commit economic vandalism and social vandalism on the U.K. "

“It is time for our governments to get a grip of what is now a full-blown crisis, and fast, before severe and lasting damage is done."

The Freight Transport Association of Ireland said stockpiling prior to Christmas had masked some of the effect of Brexit so far.