Politics

The higher education minister said Erasmus is "not a cost, it's an investment".

Johnson should use the public support for the NHS to set out why a new tax may be necessary to fund increasingly expensive care for an ageing population, the former health secretary said.

“We are witnessing an act of vandalism against our livelihoods, our rights and our horizons," the statement reads.

The reason for the change of plan is concerns over Covid rates, although such worries have been seemingly ignored elsewhere.

"We’ve put up a border within the UK. We’ve made ourselves poorer and weaker."

Far from being a clean break, Britain’s divorce from Brussels is messy, and will continue to be for decades to come.

It comes as MPs in Britain were preparing to vote on the deal in a special sitting of Parliament called for Wednesday.

“What we have got now is a fraction of what we were promised through Brexit. We are going to really, really struggle this year," the country's leading fishing body said.

Blackford had a go at Labour for “lining up behind Boris Johnson” to back the deal.