Politics

The fee meant people who have been living in the UK but have been forced to apply for the EU Settlement Scheme if they want to remain here after Brexit faced charges of just over £10 for 15 minutes.

"The day Boris Johnson wrote this message, 138 people died of #Covid -bringing UK death total to 43,293," wrote one journalist.

“This is yet another betrayal by the Brexiters of the promise made that nothing would change for EU citizens already here," former Labour MEP Seb Dance said.

He said he would do the job for free and realise opportunities by rejoining the single market and the customs union.

Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, are among the hundreds of thousands of people currently self-isolating.

What is the scheme, who - beyond the Cabinet - is actually eligible for it, and when will the rest of us be able to use it?

Owen Jones tweeted: "Keir Starmer promised no more navel gazing, but instead of fighting the Tories, Labour is now beginning a Stalinist style purge..."

“The speech was light on new ‘levelling up’ policies, but much more of a problem is that the government already has a big levelling down policy – the £20 a week cut to universal credit."

Angela Rayner said Gove had falsely claimed that PPE contracts had gone through a rigorous eight-step process.