Politics

“This is an admission that far from ‘teething problems’, the government expects supply problems from their rushed Brexit deal to continue indefinitely," Best for Britain's Naomi Smith said.

"This will not go down well in Red Wall seats at all," one said.

“He took away all our local advice services, thousands of local police officers, he reduced funding for refuges, took away access to justice, he made a killing from his failures, we had to suffer because of them," Jess Phillips said.

The education secretary went on to study social science at Bradford University, which he described as the "most exotic and exciting place in the whole world".

The leader of Reform UK has said he will now write to the governor of the Bank of England to ask it to provide banking services to parties that cannot secure them elsewhere.

"Basic principle of the universe. If John Redwood says one thing we should do the exact opposite" said one Twitter user.

"When shelves are bare in my local food banks, businesses have gone to the wall, public sector and key workers have suffered pay freezes and cuts, his priority is once again himself," said Labour MP for South Shields Emma Lewell-Buck.

But around 2,000 military drivers are set to attempt replacing a huge shortage of 100,000 lorry drivers, previously made up mainly of Eastern Europeans.

Government-approved private test providers are under investigation following reports of several failures to protect travellers.