Far from being a clean break, Britain’s divorce from Brussels is messy, and will continue to be for decades to come.

The claims of lockdown sceptics "are often expressed with overconfidence, or without vital context,” the fact-checker said.

More than 400 visitors from the UK were told to go into quarantine. But, according to Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung, at least half fled the resort in a clandestine, “cloak-and-dagger” operation.

“What we have got now is a fraction of what we were promised through Brexit. We are going to really, really struggle this year," the country's leading fishing body said.

“I had someone say, ‘I’ll give you £2,000 for the vaccine’," the head of a private clinic said.

Shocking CCTV footage captured hounds chasing the animal on a private industrial estate in Buckinghamshire - with the huntsman feeding the carcass to the hounds.

Nadhim Zahawi - who has been charged by Boris Johnson with overseeing the rollout of the UK’s mass vaccination scheme - was quickly blamed for starting the meeting on his personal Zoom account, which has a 100 person limit.

"Many of these so-called impoverished children have smart phones and we expect the taxpayers to dip into their pockets to feed them."

Merry Christmas, prime minister.