Liz Truss, the Foreign Secretary, wrote: “Well done Jamie for speaking out and your brave statement. We stand with you.”

Brandon Lewis, the Northern Ireland Secretary, said: “I am proud to call Jamie a colleague. This is a brave statement which deserves the utmost admiration and respect. As a party, we will always stand together and embrace people for who they are.”

The tweet was sent following a gathering for Tory MPs at which Boris Johnson reportedly made a joke about trans issues.

Politico reports that the PM began his speech with this opener: “Good evening ladies and gentleman, or as Keir Starmer would put it, people who are assigned female or male at birth.”

‘Things have really taken a tumble. I am not ok’

In a lengthy statement on his official Twitter account, Wallis also revealed that he was raped last September.

“A few months back, in September, I ‘hooked up’ with someone who I met online and when I chose to say ‘no’ on the basis that he wouldn’t wear a condom he chose to rape me,” Wallis said.

“I have not been myself since this incident and I don’t think I will ever recover. It is not something you ever forget, and it is not something you ever move on from.”

“Since then things have really taken a tumble. I am not ok.”