Yet today the Prime Minister praised his „good work“ setting up free schools – and said he‘ll be given another chance.

„Frankly I’m not at all impressed by those comments,“ she told the BBC‘s Andrew Marr Show.

But she said: „He‘s now in public office. As far as I‘m concerned, if he was to continue to use that sort of language and talk in that sort of way, he would no longer be in public office.“

She added: „He’s apologised.“