“To keep blue badge users in limbo is simply unacceptable. Blue badges are issued because of specific health reasons, and to not have their status confirmed two years down the line is simply outrageous."

"I see the contest for leader of the BNP is heating up," tweeted the Liverpool Echo's Liam Thorp in response.

“Leaving the EU makes it much harder to leave the UK," the travel journalist has concluded.

Queues are building at the Port of Dover amid fears that the severe disruption seen in recent days could return to Kent.

"If they can’t stand each other, who else would stand them?" wrote Labour's Angela Rayner in response to the Tory row.

Brexit “certainly is contributing” to the situation, with “a harder border than there was before”.

"Boris Johnson may have been our worst prime minister ever, but that doesn't mean Liz Truss can't be worse," wrote Edwin Hayward.

“Strikes are only ever a last resort, and often the only avenue left to employees in the face of hostile employers. Changing the law to make it harder for workers to win disputes is both reckless and unlawful."

“Channel 4 costs the UK taxpayer precisely nothing, yet gives us a thriving independent production sector, thousands of jobs and world-renowned, innovative content."