Prime Minister Boris Johnson has finally addressed the outpouring of criticism following the heated debate in Parliament on Wednesday.

Speaking to the BBC, Johnson said:

We must deplore any threats to anybody, particularly female MPs.

Tempers need to come down, and people need to come together because it's only by getting Brexit done that you'll lance the boil, as it were, of the current anxiety and we will be able to get on with the domestic agenda."

However, the PM doubled down on his use of the phrase "surrender act" to describe the law that Parliament passed to prevent the UK from crashing out of the European Union without a deal. The law requires the PM to ask for an extension to Brexit if he cannot get a new deal with the European Union.