Politics

He says he will return things to normal in 2021 - but that's not the most outlandish pledge.

Boris Johnson will not start randomly drug testing members of his Cabinet, despite Shaun Bailey - the Tory candidate for London mayor - saying he would urge all major companies in the capital to do so.

Assumptions that Facebook, bots or the Russians are to blame for the spread of false information is a "misdiagnosis of the problem", report authors note.

Twitter users were quick to jump on the nomination - with many claiming that Williamson’s potential award must be the result of a concerted trolling campaign.

The loss of EU funding is a very serious issue for a place that, despite being among the UK’s foremost tourist spots, remains one of the poorest places in Britain.

This is the column the Prime Minister wants you to forget.

Parts of the UK may face power and petrol shortages if thousands of lorries are stranded in Dover - and medicine shortages caused by port blockages could lead to animal diseases spreading through the countryside.

Williamson was in Scarborough, where he has family, while the exam chaos was beginning to develop in Scotland, the Sunday Times reported.

Four sites in Kent - with capacity to hold thousands of lorries - have already been mapped out, to ease the pressure on major Channel ports like Dover.