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The report also said too many “vulnerable people” were detained, some for years, including those with mental health problems which “sharply deteriorated” in detention, adding: “The indefinite nature of detention also caused great distress.”

Dominic Grieve, the chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament, has accused Johnson of sitting on the report ahead of the December 12 vote.

The missed target comes as an opinion poll revealed that most Brits say climate change will influence their general election.

Labour has also gone on the attack on Boris Johnson after the government failed to bring urgent plans to tackle the climate and environment emergency in time to meet the six month deadline set by parliament.

The announcement comes as the Conservative Government has been accused of misusing public money in Government Facebook ads targeting marginal constituencies which were launched on the day Boris Johnson got the election he has repeatedly claimed he did not want to hold.

The first televised election debate between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn has been set for November 19.

The Met Office has issued a number of weather warnings for the south of England on Saturday.

Labour said the Tories owed the communities whose wishes had been ignored an apology, and the public "an explanation of how much public money they wasted while ignoring the science."

Facebook has removed the adverts paid for by the public purse targeting key swing constituencies.