Politics

"Don't tell Brenda from Bristol."

It comes as home secretary Priti Patel hit out at the ‘scandalous’ decision to ground the flight, suggesting it was politically motivated.

"Wow - in cricketing terms this would be the equivalent of: Sajid Javid bowls Wes Streeting a bouncer at his throat, but Wes hits it out of the park".

However, Business minister Paul Scully said he would be comfortable without a replacement ethics adviser as long as ministers are held to account in another way.

"I'm no campaigns expert but I'm pretty sure 'we're not as bad as Harold Shipman' isn't the greatest sell on the doorstep," tweeted Adam Bienkov.

“The Prime Minister has now driven both of his own hand-picked ethics advisers to resign in despair," said Angela Rayner

"This was appalling, ill judged & totally counterproductive. Insulting behaviour like this is demeaning," said John McDonnell.

How did it come to this, a human rights lawyer failing to discuss the human rights of people on board flights to Rwanda?

"We are moving toward an oligarch form of society where a small number of billionaires not only have extraordinary wealth, they have extraordinary political power."