Freelancer Andy Aitchison was arrested by police on suspicion of criminal damage after reporting on the demonstrations outside Napier Barracks in Folkestone, Kent.

Prominent Conservatives - including Sir David Lidington and Dominic Grieve - urged Johnson to strike a security deal with Brussels.

The Labour leader used a major speech to announce a recovery bonds plan to boost the UK's post-Covid recovery.

Canada-based researchers said that the vaccine offered nearly 93 per cent efficacy after one dose.

Brutal snowstorms have left more than 2.7 million households without energy - while close to 12 million people have no drinking water in their homes.

“I'm not sure how he kept it together when he told me that this, combined with my weight, had given me a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 28,000. For reference, a BMI of 40 or more is considered morbidly obese - so I'm not sure what this would have made...

“It’s a disaster. They’re just stopping any exports from mainland UK over to Northern Ireland. We can’t get any trees over from any of the nurseries that would usually deal with."

Researchers at think-tank Reform showed that patients waiting a year or more for treatment had risen by over 12,000 per cent since the start of the pandemic.

Researchers said £190 billion is needed to get the UK economy back on track - a figure which matches Biden's ambition, and is four times what Rishi Sunak has pledged.