The European Parliament’s Brexit co-ordinator also warned that the scope of a trade deal during the upcoming negotiations would depend on Boris Johnson’s “willingness to comply with a number of standards of the European Union”.

The father of schoolgirl Molly Russell, who took her life in 2017, backs the recommendations, which include tech firms paying for research.

Long-standing commitments by brands and industry to eliminate destruction caused by their palm oil supply chains have failed, the WWF said.

Discriminatory keywords such as ‘transphobic’, ‘white supremacists’ and ‘anti-gay’ were not excluded by the platform.

Naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough said action has been put off ‘year after year’ but there is no more time to ‘prevaricate’.

“All of the predictions we made about the cuts to policing, the devastation that it would bring, the rise in crime that it would bring, have come true,” warned the Police Federation chief this week.

Democrats said yet more new evidence had come to light about Donald Trump’s pressure on Ukraine to harm a political rival and his subsequent attempts to cover up of his collusion.

Boris Johnson has suddenly contradicted Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab in echoing Donald Trump’s calls to scrap Iran nuclear deal.

2019 was the second warmest year in records dating back to the 19th century, an assessment shows.