Commons Leader Lucy Powell said if Kemi Badenoch ‘was a strong leader’ she would have ‘sacked him (Jenrick) by now’.

The Reform leader told a local elections campaign event that overdiagnosis is ‘creating a class of victims’ in the UK.

Leah Harrison, from Darlington, was crossing a stream while on an instructor-led walk when a mudslide came down a bank and knocked her off her feet.