Politics

The accused staffers said Labour "should be focusing on the deeply troubling evidence" in the leaked report.

Industry leaders warned that up to 120,000 pigs may be disposed of if there will continue to be a lack of workers to process meat, causing more financial loss to UK farmers - amid Boris Johnson's suggestion that the pigs would have become "bacon sandwiches" anyway.

“It would appear that even senior government ministers were reluctant to push back on scientific advice that seemed to go against commonsense interpretations of the unfolding crisis,” said Professor Trish Greenhalgh.

It comes after Poland's opposition party warned the current right-wing government is threatening Poles' EU membership.

It comes after business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng promised to help UK firms during the energy crisis - but Rishi Sunak's colleagues denied he has been in talks with them.

Lord Michael Heseltine said the government is “lurching from crisis to crisis” and is “patently not in control” as they are facing warnings of a winter of discontent similar to the 1970s.

Lance Forman, who was a Brexit Party MEP, seemed to forget about a time not so long ago when things were not going so well post-Brexit.

Sir Peter Bottomley said it was "desperately difficult" for new MPs to survive on an £82,000 annual salary.

The former government minister’s family said he wanted to make a permanent difference to other people’s fight against the disease.