Charity Open cages said "you cannot sell them in your store, profit off their deformed, weak bodies, and then claim to take animal welfare seriously."

“The duty of the RNLI is to save anybody who is at sea, regardless of where they've come from, where they're going, who they are, and people just seem to be overlooking this fact."

“Anti-vax people, I’m sorry, I think they’re fruitcakes."

"Anti-vaxxers protest BBC coverage of pandemic by storming a building in White City. A building the BBC vacated in 2013 and is now luxury flats. Is there a link between stupidity and anti-vax? Opinions vary but evidence is growing …" Tweeted Andrew Neil

"Basic principle of the universe. If John Redwood says one thing we should do the exact opposite" said one Twitter user.

“Global heating is affecting every region on Earth, with many of the changes becoming irreversible," the UN Secretary General has said.

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.

Campaigners said the government decision could push Europeans unaware of the need to apply to maintain their rights in post-Brexit Britain into poverty.