Politics

"Fancy feeling safer in war torn Ukraine than in Wakefield," one person said.

Lord Geidt quit after being forced into an “impossible and odious” position by the prime minister.

"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.