Politics

Tory health secretary Sajid Javid previously said he was "shocked" at the waiting list getting worse.

Campaigners said the government decision could push Europeans unaware of the need to apply to maintain their rights in post-Brexit Britain into poverty.

"It’s one rule for them and another rule for us, whether it’s Dominic Cummings, whether it’s Matt Hancock, whether it’s Alok Sharma."

The move comes after Corbyn was suspended from Labour in October 2020, after saying antisemitism in the party was “dramatically overstated for political reasons by our opponents inside and outside the party, as well as by much of the media.”

“It frustrates me immensely that this week’s big moment in so many young people’s lives is being risked by the chaos and incompetence at the top of this government," Starmer said.

"Human behaviour is alarmingly accelerating global warming," he said, whilst defending allegations that he flew to 30 countries in seven months.

"It's not like we're some extremist zealots," its leader has insisted.

It comes as the foreign secretary was criticised in a newspaper report for allegedly avoiding quarantine rules upon his return to the UK from France.

One in five 2019 Conservative voters now say they do not who they would vote for in an election.