He posted on X "That speech of Robert Jenrick's was lazy, mendacious, simplistic tripe."

At a counter in a central Mexico City market, Arturo García leaned over a steaming bowl of tripe stew on a recent morning.

This is a stew popular in Madrid which includes blood sausage and some very unfortunate looking and smelling tripe.

When it comes to the public, the polls have suggested for many months that claim is tripe - to use Boris Johnson's terminology for the report into his conduct.

"Rubbish", a "lie", "deranged", "absurd" and "complete tripe"are just some of the words he has used to describe the report Westminster has been pouring over.