Stanley Johnson has been asked if “bunny hugger” – the term used so dismissively by Boris Johnson at the climate summit – is an affectionate or offensive term.

“I don’t think I would mind being seen as a greenie,” he told LBC’s Nick Ferrari, questioning his son’s suggestion there was something to be embarrassed about. “I can tell you Nick, I’ve been a Conservative environmentalist for a very long time.”

He added: “I’m very keen on bunnies. As I sit here on Exmoor, looking out of window … there used to be hundreds, thousands of them down here … Bunny hugging is a good term.”

A wholesale review of the way English football is run will consider creating a new regulator, changing the “fit and proper person test” for owners – and examine how to give fans a greater say in how their clubs are run.

The review will look the way the game is run overseas, such as Germany’s Bundesliga where teams are only allowed to take part if commercial investors hold no more than a 49 per cent stake in their ownership.

Former sports minister Tracey Crouch, leading the review, said: “It will look closely at the issues of governance, ownership and finance and take the necessary steps to retain the game’s integrity.”

Culture minister Caroline Dinenage admitted during a live interview that she does not have Boris Johnson’s phone number, when quizzed about his matey text exchanges with Sir James Dyson.

Asked why certain people have access to Johnson’s number, she told Good Morning Britain: “Of course they don’t hand them out willy-nilly, and I’m not even sure I have got the prime minister’s number, to be honest with you.”

Dinenage then looked through her phone contacts to see if she does have the PM’s digits, before saying: “No … I don’t have it.”

Looks like the nail-biting Scottish parliament election will keep exhausted political types up for days.

The outcome of the 6 May vote won’t be known for up to 48 hours afterwards, election chiefs have confirmed. Only a third of the results will be declared the next day because of extra Covid precautions.

SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon will set out her plan for women today, while Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross will be campaigning in Fife.

Ross has said Scotland’s future is on a “knife edge” as he asked pro-UK voters to “unite behind us” to stop another referendum.

Strangely, the SNP is using exactly the same rhetoric to get its voters out. Keith Brown, deputy leader, said: “These polls show this election, the most important in Scotland’s history, on a knife-edge.”

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has changed her description on social media profile to “bunny hugger” in a dig at Boris Johnson over his comments at a climate summit.

It comes just hours after the PM said it was not “politically correct bunny hugging” to take action to combat climate change. Thunberg removed everything else on her Twitter bio after she added in the new moniker.

The Mirror’s Kevin Maguire has raised the big question about Manchester United chief exec Ed Woodward’s meeting at No 10 last week.

“Was Johnson told by Woodward days before about the football cartel but did nothing? The old Etonian rugger man was surprisingly fast out of the blocks when it leaked.”

Sources at both United and Downing Street insist the meeting was about getting fans back inside stadiums. But Labour wants to see the minutes.

Tory MP Bernard Jenkin, chairman of the Commons liaison committee, has rejected calls to launch his own inquiry into Boris Johnson’s conduct following the Dyson text revelation.

“The liaison committee doesn’t have the remit to carry out its own inquiries,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.

“The select committees themselves don’t much like the liaison committee interfering in their inquiries. There are a very comprehensive set of inquiries in progress and they are co-ordinating effectively together.”

Defending the PM and other ministers, Jenkin said: “We don’t want ministers to be locked away in ivory towers, out of touch with the real world, with people unable to contact them.”

One government minister has downplayed Boris Johnson’s response to lobbying by billionaire James Dyson – claiming her colleagues do similar things “all the time”.

Culture minister Caroline Dinenage – doing the media round on Friday –said: “We don’t hand out our mobile numbers willy-nilly but government ministers do have to engage with businesses all the time.”

“The key thing is that we follow the process, we pass anything like that on to the civil service team to take forward. There are very clear rules and that’s what we all do,” she told Times Radio.

Boris Johnson met Man United chief executive Ed Woodward at No 10 days before the launch of the despised European Super League, The Independent can reveal.

Mr Woodward – who has since quit in disgrace – held a formal meeting with the No 10 chief of staff Dan Rosenfield on Wednesday last week (and also briefly met the PM).

Sources at Manchester United said that Woodward’s talks at Downing Street were “around Covid restrictions and the return of fans to stadiums” and No 10 source has said there was “definitely no discussion of the Super League”.

But Labour is demanding details of the meeting to show the PM had no advanced warning of the ill-fated breakaway league.

“Downing Street should release the minutes in order to clear up any confusion and avoid accusations of hypocrisy,” said Jo Stevens, shadow culture secretary.

Newly-released documents have revealed how Lex Greensill that tens of thousands of British small businesses could miss out on payments if he and David Cameron failed in their efforts to secure Covid support from the government.

Cameron and the Australian financier made a barrage of increasingly desperate appeals to Treasury officials and the Bank of England for support as Greensill Capital’s income dried up, a 30-page dossier released last night revealed.

It follows the Treasury’s most senior civil servant, Sir Tom Scholar, revealing to the Treasury committee that he had personally spoken with Cameron by phone, saying it was “quite natural” for him to do so.