++Westminster wars++

■ AFTER the Government’s proposed lifetime ban on illegal immigrants, Keir Starmer is revealed to have said all immigration laws have a ‘racist undercurrent’. What’s racist about stopping foreigners with no right to be here from entering or staying in the UK?

■ IN A Q&A session, Home Office civil servants said they found it difficult to reconcile the Government’s plan to stop small boats with their personal and ethical convictions, one saying they had never been ‘so ashamed’ to work for the department. Good luck with finding a job in the real world where you can’t work from home with a gold-plated pension.

■ CAN it be true Boris has nominated his father for a knighthood? Stanley Johnson’s a serial philanderer who broke Covid rules. They say the rotten apple never falls far from the tree.