Politics

"We’re sending people who try to seek a safe life here in the UK to Rwanda? Is that what we’re doing? Lower than low we are at the top!," Gary Neville said.

"Sending people fleeing from persecution to a dictatorship that repeatedly violates human rights might just be a new low," Sam Freedman said.

Applications jumped on Tuesday to double the daily average for the year after Partygate fines were handed out to the PM and chancellor.

"You think there's no one better in your Cabinet than someone who is a proven liar and a hypocrite?"

Macron cited his late Socialist predecessor François Mitterrand who in his last speech to the European Parliament said: “Nationalism is war.”

But she branded comments made by Johnson in comparing women wearing the full veil to “letterboxes” and “bank robbers” as “indefensible.

He says: ''it's perfectly possible that people inside No.10 are quite enjoying dripping this stuff through''.

“I have no recollection of this at all. Yes, there were various wild parties, very perverse themes expressed… I can’t absolutely rule it out.”

It was a close call, but there was always going to be one MP who wanted to defend the PM for law breaking more emphatically than the others.