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Whilst China has not commented on the alleged offer of a million tourists, not everyone agrees with President Whipps Jr.'s assessment.

“Whilst BHP continues to believe that a combination with Anglo American would have had strong strategic merits and created significant value for all stakeholders, BHP is confident in the highly compelling potential of its own organic growth strategy,” BHP said.

"And all the whilst he was doing this, he was going on like really crazy bougie holidays and spending crazy amounts of money that probably wasn't his."

But she added that some of the debate in the Lords had been "repetitive", whilst some of the issues raised by peers had already been "discussed at length" by MPs.

"Whilst we were still out there in Tenerife, the online world was just going crazy," Ms Duncan said.