“If I look at what happens to high-profile female footballers, high-profile coloured footballers and the abuse they take on social media … they take absolutely terrible abuse,” Clarke said.

Kate Bingham hired a boutique PR firm, whose director is a long-term business associate of Sir Humphry Wakefield.

“It’s nothing to do with them and we will get on with our legislation. We are a sovereign nation, that’s what we voted for," IDS said.

Ken Clarke urged colleagues to use “the full extent of the constitutional powers” of Lords to stop the legislation, as the “consequences for this country would be appalling”.

Testifying before Congress in May, Rick Bright said “lives were endangered and lives were lost” because Trump ignored him.

Environment minister George Eustice said a "trade deal with the United States is not critical to our economic success".

John Redwood told the president-elect that Brexit “gave us a larger percentage mandate for exit than your own convincing win".

Anti-vaxxers are out in force online, linking the vaccine news to billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

British diplomats reportedly believe that Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron and Irish premier Michael Martin will be the first leaders to hear from Biden.