Last week, deputy prime minister Dominic Raab also blamed the difficulty Ukrainian refugees are having coming to the UK on... Ukrainian wishes.

Staff members, who have worked for the Embassy for years, can reportedly only apply for the visa to flee from the war with Russia to Britain if they have relatives in the UK.

The loss to the EU in missing customs revenue was €2.7 billion, it was revealed. "No wonder they need border controls", one person said.

Once again, Ros Atkins has concisely summarised the government's response to an escalating crisis to devastating effect.

“Priti Patel tries to give you the impression that we’re moving heaven and earth to help Ukrainian refugees when we’re doing less than any other country in Europe," the LBC presenter said.

It comes as the US secretary of state Antony Blinken reinforced the message Moscow’s campaign was faltering and said Ukraine “can absolutely win against Russia".

Meanwhile, Poland has received an extraordinary number of Ukrainian refugees: over one million, prompting The Spectator to call it a “humanitarian superpower”.

Last week Russia's foreign minister Sergey Lavrov likened the Americans to Hitler and Napoleon.

“We’ve been very clear that it’s unlawful as well as unhelpful for UK military and for the UK population to start going towards Ukraine in that sense," the army boss said.