“She was calling them racist and she is right. They are more racist than us,” one MP told The Sunday Times.

The campaign – involving newspaper, digital, radio and billboard adverts – will emphasise the importance of organised learning to children’s development.

Seumas Milne and Corbyn reportedly visited Johnson on 16 March to discuss the UK’s response to the pandemic, and whether the country should be locked down.

The move comes just hours after the body published its criteria for mock exam results to be considered as the basis of an appeal.

"Looking for a lady who will treat me well and let me do the same to her, and isn't bothered about covering up her pretty little face," the entry begins.

One BBC journalist revealed that an “exceptional student” from a “historically low performing school” who had two results downgraded - and lost her place to study at Cambridge as a result.

Brexiteer Sir Edward Leigh, the long-serving Conservative MP for Gainsborough, suggested on Twitter that England and France should return to the border arrangements they maintained in the late sixteenth century.

If a “typical” free trade agreement is struck with Brussels, the Office for Budget Responsibility predicted a 5.2 per cent loss of potential GDP over the next 15 years after Brexit.

“The year 2020 will be remembered in history as the year we finally left the European Union, but the final shape of our withdrawal looks unlikely to be the true freedom that many of us had fought for decades.”