Politics

A report found that the bridge would need some of the largest support towers ever constructed and would run across an offshore ammunition dump.

"That the last MP managed to get paid £300,000 a year to lobby for companies is an absolute disgrace. I could have got loads more!"

"It wouldn’t be for the first time", the former chancellor said.

It comes after a review found earlier this year that “anti-Muslim sentiment remains a problem” within the Conservative Party.

Last month, Patel claimed that people crossing the Channel are “not genuine asylum seekers” and just want to stay in hotels.

“Total rubbish, total rubbish, you’re talking total rubbish," Boris Johnson told a journalist when being told he is "derailing levelling up".

The sum brings his total earnings from legal work for 2021 to almost £955,000 on top of his MP’s salary of £82,932.

"The party is now more right wing and nationalist than at any time in my lifetime," he also said.

Meanwhile, Labour stepped up pressure on Mr Johnson to declare further details of what his free holiday in Spain in a villa owned by the family of minister Lord Goldsmith cost.