Paul Dacre - the 70-year-old former editor of the Daily Mail - is the prime minister’s first choice to become chair of broadcasting regulator Ofcom, the Sunday Times reported.

Users of the app can not input positive or negative results from tests carried out either at NHS hospitals or at Public Health England labs, the app’s website said.

The demonstrators, who are protesting against Government lockdown measures, cheered and clapped, shouting “we will win”.

When Trump named the controversial Brett Kavanaugh to replace the retiring Anthony Kennedy in 2018, he reportedly told aides of Barrett: “I’m saving her for Ginsburg.”

Compared to a British version of Fox News, GB News describes itself as “Britain’s news channel” - and will be aimed at those who feel “undeserved and unheard by their media”.

Michel - the president of the European Council - warned that the EU27 will not back down as time runs out to strike a trade deal with Britain.

“It is vital that Government makes this move now, to ensure that a generation of children are not completely abandoned, doomed to spend their lives struggling for opportunities their peers will have ready access to, rather than flourishing.”

The officer died in hospital after a gunman - who was being detained - opened fire. The 23-year-old suspect, who is believed to have then turned the gun on himself, is in a critical condition in hospital.

It seems increasingly likely that Johnson will be defeated on his plans to extend the use of emergency laws to push through new Covid-19 legislation, after Labour joined forces with more than 40 Conservative MPs.