“We’re basically being told to turn away ethnic minorities and foreigners, who are fundamental to delivery of healthcare in this country,” an NHS source said.

"Yorkshire should not be punished for its success in rolling out the vaccine quicker than other regions," one local MP said.

Many of the guests fled as officers arrived - with the organiser facing a £10,000 fine.

“It’s just been an absolute nightmare,” Ian Perkes told BylineTV. “If I could turn the clock back, would I have voted Leave? Of course not."

Delivery company DPD reportedly asked one shopper to cough up £77 in tax and extra charges to release £245 of clothes purchased from a French website.

SNP MP Stuart McDonald told George Eustice, the environment secretary, that Scottish seafood companies were concerned they were “going out of business” with their produce “sitting in lorry parks in Kent waiting for customs clearance”.

"Biden commits to strengthening alliances and we engage in silly spats. We are better than this.”

Billionaire Lord Ashcroft last year gave £175,000 to the Tories and their London mayoral candidate.

Andrew Mills - who served an adviser to the Board of Trade, chaired by Liz Truss - changed his company's status to avoid filing accounts.