Mr Johnson writes in his forthcoming memoir that there was ‘a ridiculous business … when they made me try to persuade Harry to stay’.

The storm made landfall in northwestern Florida as a Category 4 storm as forecasters warned it could create a ‘nightmare’ storm surge.

Prime Minister Alexander De Croo’s speech was one of the most pointed ever directed at the pope during a foreign trip.

Images posted on social media showed tracks at a train station completely submerged and abandoned cars on an empty motorway in south-west England.