New polling by Ipsos MORI revealed that 58 per cent of the public do not feel confident that Britain will be able to achieve a successful outcome in talks, as UK and EU officials meet for a new round of trade discussions.

In a joint letter addressed to Oliver Dowden, the culture secretary, signatories including former FA chairmen Greg Dyke and Lord Triesman and a host of MPs called on the government to prop up flailing football clubs.

Brussels handed over £3.7 million into Dyson’s farm firm - despite the hoover mogul revealing that he would move his vacuum cleaner business from Britain to Singapore last year.

The measure had proposed giving preferential access to jobs, social protection and benefits to people from Switzerland over those from the 27-nation bloc that surrounds it.

In new guidance for teachers and school leaders issued on Thursday, the Department for Education categorised anti-capitalism as an “extreme political stance” - equating it with opposition to freedom of speech and antisemitism.

Fox said that the party - provisionally called “Reclaim” - would provide a platform for those “tired of being told that we represent the very thing we have, in history, stood together against”.

Skinner - the so-called Beast of Bolsover - was an ever-present in British politics until last year’s election, when he lost the seat he had held since 1970.

Thousands of students are currently locked in their rooms following a surge in cases at universities across the country - many in draconian conditions - including Glasgow, Manchester Metropolitan and Edinburgh Napier.

It is the first time Labour have held a lead since July 2019, the end days of Theresa May’s tenure in Downing Street when the Liberal Democrats and the Brexit Party were also polling strongly.