Politics

Electoral Commission figures from five years ago show 28 per cent of UK voters did not turn out to cast their vote - about 13 million people.

Jacob Rees-Mogg rubbished Sajid Javid's suggestion that people should wear masks in crowded spaces.

“What could have been a great celebration of global Britain post-Brexit has now been Whitehall sanitised down into something anodyne and meaningless – it is a great opportunity missed," one Brexiteer complained.

"The economic and political shift towards neoliberalism has been about undermining democracy and moving decision making away from the hands of the average person" - Grace Blakeley.

Sajid Javid said MPs should set an example by wearing masks in the Commons - but he rarely dons one himself.

"This is now the third Asia-Pacific agreement in a row where more than 80 per cent of the projected growth in trade has gone to exporters in those other countries," she said.

The UK has signed a trade deal with New Zealand - and the economic forecasts suggest its impact will be negligible.

In a new report, the former Labour frontbencher said his plan was "both morally as well as fiscally correct".

“You tell great big fat lies, you sell magic bean fantasies. And then when reality stubbornly proves you wrong, you double down even harder."