“I regard it as a tremendous compliment to be called an unco-operative crusty", the Prime Minister's father said.

Hays has already employed 421 members of Thomas Cook staff since the travel group collapsed last month.

If the Prime Minister is able to get an agreement, it will be an opportunity for MPs – who will have to give their approval – to debate it. Otherwise, Mr Johnson is expected to set out how he plans to take Britain out of the EU at the end...

Mr Blair said that both sides of the Brexit debate should avoid “mixing up” a general election with a vote on the EU, and call for another referendum instead.

The campaign group had posted a picture of the German Chancellor with the words: “We didn’t win two world wars to be pushed around by a Kraut.”

A series of "electoral shocks" has left the British electorate more volatile than ever.

"It’s already said it’s willing to flush the economy down the toilet, but now we won’t have the paper to clean up after", MP Jonathan Edwards said.

“This is a budget developed in the shadow of Brexit and the context for Brexit has shifted to no deal as our central assumption", the Finance Minster said.

“You don’t want a deal, you don’t want an extension, you don’t want to revoke, quo vadis?”, he said.