A Lancashire County Councillor said there are "much more important things to worry about".

A system made to prevent lorry queues blocking Dover town centre has been enforced 18 times since the beginning of this year – a 100% increase on January 2021.

“It is really important to remember in all this that, while high paid jobs are unevenly spread, low paid jobs, and indeed poverty, are not,” a top think tank has warned.

Johnson's efforts to win round wavering Tory MPs took a Shakespearean turn last night.

“I wonder if Daily Express readers have noticed Boris Johnson has just hiked their taxes to a 70 year high to help pay for the NHS after he promised a massive Brexit dividend of £350m a week if we left the European Union,” lawyer and filmmaker Peter Stefanovic said.

"People, and I think our constituents, want to see us getting on with the job," the deputy prime minister insisted.

“If these proposals involve changing the law in devolved policy areas, then pressing ahead without the consent of the Scottish parliament would demonstrate yet again the UK government’s intent to undermine devolution," a senior Scottish minister has said.

The SNP leader said - again and again - that Johnson had "wilfully misled Parliament", before being tossed out by the Speaker.

"We have a government plane to conduct government business in the way that all major nations do and I think that’s right and appropriate," top Treasury official Simon Clarke has said in defence of Truss.