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Boris Johnson has written to the First Minister following the election of a pro-independence majority in Holyrood.

The Labour leader stripped his deputy Angela Rayner of her chairman position in a move criticised by left-wing MPs.

Former shadow defence minister Khalid Mahmood lashed out at the “London-based bourgeoisie, with the support of brigades of woke social media warriors” that has “effectively captured the party” amid rumours that Starmer is looking to relocate the party.

The Labour leader said he is a ‘values-led person’ but would not say whether he views himself as ‘woke’.

Yanis Varoufakis, the former Greek finance minister, said it showed “how easy a country can slip surreptitiously into totalitarianism” at the time.

The lack of widely-available, reliable broadband has been made more acute by the Covid-19 crisis – with many children struggling to access remote learning as a result of the so-called “digital divide”.

Close to £100 million has been given to a firm co-founded by a wealthy Tory donor.

Many have pointed to one of the core pledges of Labour’s election manifesto in 2019 - free broadband for all - as an answer to the problem.

According to Ofcom estimates more than 880,000 children live in a household with only a mobile internet connection.