Referring to Lord Frost, Mr Hollinrake told the Mail on Sunday: ‘I worked with him in the Cabinet Office and have the highest regard for him on a personal level.

The Conservative Party is currently defending a narrow majority of 3,358 votes in the riding of Wakefield.

Meanwhile, Boris Johnson has been urged to cut post-Brexit red tape that is putting 40,000 jobs in the UK at risk. The Prime Minister has been warned by the Tourism Alliance that there has been a drop in bookings from overseas schools from the EU visiting the UK.

This is because every child from the EU entering the country must have a passport and a £95 visa.

Kurt Janson, the director of the Tourism Alliance told the Guardian: ‘The collapse of the school group market is unnecessary because school children pose no safety risk, will not disappear into the underground economy and won’t start driving minicabs, and parents who let their children continue on school trips usually want their teachers to drive them home.

“This is an obvious situation where the government needs to set aside its dogma on passports and work with industry to find a workable solution.”

Before Brexit, around 1.5 million children arrived in the UK every year using ID cards under the List of Travelers scheme.

The additional post-Brexit bureaucracy installed by the government could jeopardize at least 40,000 jobs in the language school sector.

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