Politics

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.

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.”