The biggest issue facing Boris is not Partygate, not even gas prices (he can hardly be blamed for global demand pushing up the cost) but the continued influx of Channel migrants.

Last Thursday around 160 arrived on our shores. That was more than the whole of January last year. And last year an incredible 28,000 made their way across the 22-mile stretch of water, three times the number of the previous year.

This is bloody serious.

We need action. Clearly Priti has been putting forward various suggestions in her time as Home Secretary and either they haven’t worked or been blocked by the liberals within No.10.

The benefit of Partygate is that Boris is now fighting for his political life and has recognised that he will only survive if he can solve the problem.

So he let it be known to the Sunday Times that he is taking ownership of the issue and will bring in the military. Already, less than 24 hours after the briefing, the game is falling apart.

Now No.10 are saying that the Royal Navy will not be pushing back the dinghies. That’s a shame. What will they be doing?

Very little by the sound of it. Once again the government are hoping to outsource UK asylum claims to either Ghana or Rwanda.
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I’m very much in favour of these ideas but they have been around for a long time and they have never moved forward. I am also concerned at how we are supposed to put migrants on the planes - and keep them there - when they don’t wish to go. These are in the main powerful young men. We would literally have to chain them to their seats. I would be in favour of that but suspect the bed wetters in Parliament might have another view.

I do accept that if Boris does come up with an answer he would be 10% ahead in the polls rather than 10% behind.

The converse of that is if he doesn’t have an answer he will definitely be pushed out.

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My partner has an all-electric car while I have a hybrid (basically a petrol motor with decent PR).

So when we have long journeys what do we do? Use the petrol of course as I do not want to be spending my time a) Worrying about running out of power in a country lane just south of Mansfield. b) Worrying about finding a charger that is working. 

Range anxiety is the biggest mental health issue facing the electric car owner today.

Well, according to Mercedes-Benz that moment has gone. They have developed a new battery which has travelled from Southampton to Inverness on one charge. That is 620 miles without a top up. Remarkable and if true a complete game changer.

This is three times the average range of electric cars and 200 miles more than the best-selling Tesla Model S.

The Vision EQXX prototype will form the basis of a new car to go on sale in 2024. The commercial model, according to The Times, is unlikely to have the full range of the concept car but will use the same technology to enable much longer distances than is available now.

The prototype’s interior is also distinctive. It features vegan silk and faux leather made from mushrooms, as well as a giant touchscreen that spans the entire dashboard. The car’s shape has been designed to be more aerodynamic  ‘’than a football.’’

The car uses a newly-designed motor and a bespoke lithium ion battery. There are also thin solar panels on the roof.

China may be one step ahead of the Germans. They announced in November that the Guangzhou Automobile Group said its new Aion L Plus could do 621 miles on one charge.

It goes on sale this month.

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In what must be a deeply unedifying sight for his mother, the Duke of York's lawyers will go before a New York court later today to throw out a claim for damages by Virginia Giuffre.

Andrew’s hopes rest on an agreement between his mate Jeffrey Epstein and Giuffre back in 2009 when she pocketed $500,000 for her sexual exploitation and in return agreed to keep schtum about ‘’adult male peers, including royalty.’’

His lawyers say that gets Andrew off the hook. If it does it is a disgrace but in reality this case spells the end for Andrew whatever the outcome.

Why should Epstein want ‘’royalty’’ included in any such settlement except for the fact that he feared Andrew was going to be named at some stage and he was doing his chum a great favour.

The idea that Andrew will then be able to say I’m in the clear and can go back to opening schools, hospitals and the like is for the birds.

He has a massive shadow hanging over him and would do best to announce his permanent retirement from public life.

After all with her conviction it is now clear Andrew was friends with two paedophiles, Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. One is unfortunate, two is careless.

Hard to know how thick Andrew is. He must have been pretty stupid to do that Newsnight interview but to claim there were two reasons why it couldn’t have been him at Tramp he used two pieces of ‘’evidence’’.

The first was that he couldn’t have been there as he was at a birthday party for his daughter at a Pizza Express in Woking, Surrey.

The second was that he couldn’t have sweated while dancing at the club with Giuffre (as she alleged) because he had a medical condition which stopped him sweating.

Both those alibis have collapsed as he now says he could not name any witnesses to his pizza visit. That is a surprise as you would have thought Andrew having an American Hot in Woking would be something somebody could remember.

Secondly he couldn’t find any medical notes backing up his ‘’I can’t sweat defence’’.

You would have thought there was a doctor somewhere, a note somewhere, that would have supported an important push back. But no.

It feels like he is making it up as goes along. The British public are not stupid. They do not believe him. A period of silence is required from Andrew.

And Charles, as our next Monarch, must make it clear for the record, that there is no way back.

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