Politics

“I think British people don’t care about us, they had five years to fight for us, they don’t even fight for their own rights."

Isabel Oakeshott wrote that the post-Brexit deal with Australia would be a "death knell" for British farming.

She also couldn't think of one person who welcomed the report by the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, which found no evidence of institutional racism.

The government paid around £200 million monthly to secure 8,000 beds from 26 private hospital groups during the coronavirus crisis, but they were barely used.

One scamp on twitter wrote: "No10 describes the claim that Boris Johnson missed coronavirus meetings to work on a biography of Shakespeare as “total nonsense” He was writing two books, one Pro and one Anti-Shakespeare."

The Westminster Hall debate will start at 4.30pm and a minister will respond on behalf of the Government.

"She was only saying what most people in Scotland are thinking," one person said.

But with the Tories certain to oppose any change to a system that benefits them, Labour knows it will have to be returned to power under the current arrangements before it can implement reform.

The left-wing republicans would be the largest party in both Stormont and Dail if elections were held tomorrow.