Politics

The arrest comes amid renewed scrutiny of sleaze in Westminster following a string of cases.

"Successful entrepreneurship is ultimately a matter of flair", the Iron Lady once said.

The celebrity chef called on the public to gather outside Downing Street on Friday with bowls of the dessert to demonstrate against the U-turns.

His adviser never meant him to do it in "such a serious context, or, for that matter, so badly and unamusingly", an informant told the New European.

And would it have curtailed the current dilemma being faced by the prime minister?

Johnson is trying to blame the EU for agreeing to the protocol which is "the thing that allowed him to say 'I got Brexit done'", Alastair Campbell said.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin said relationships “forged” between Irish and British government politicians at a European level helped the peace process.

The row over the Northern Ireland Protocol has created an impasse in efforts to form a new Executive in Stormont.

The prime minister was in Belfast in an attempt to secure progress on a Brexit deal that he signed.