The Prime Minister insisted Labour had acted swiftly to suspend the Runcorn and Helsby MP after footage emerged of him in a late-night altercation.

Government sources said there had been a ‘total cock-up with the comms’ arising from the conflation of customs sites and freeports.

The German supermarket chain also announced it has agreed to sell 12 new stores as part of a leaseback deal worth £70 million.

Situated within the North Lowestoft Conservation Area since the 1880s when it was known as The Fisheries Hotel in 1892 - becoming The Spread Eagle in the 1900s - it was most recently known as The ...