QUOTES OF THE Week
“There is... no quick fix. This is about addressing long-term pull factors, smashing the criminal gangs that treat human beings as cargo and tackling supply chains” - Home Secretary Priti Patel gives a statement in the Commons about tackling migrant crossings after at least 27 people died when a dinghy capsized off the coast of Calais.
“I think it’s time for both our governments to stop blaming each other and to try and talk to each other and find real solutions, not a crazy solution such as having more and more people patrolling, sending the British Army to the French shore. That is not acceptable and will not change anything” - Pierre-Henri Dumont, MP for Calais.
“It’s a bit of a mystery to me because I have two children and I’ve taken them both previously into the chamber as needs must to make sure my constituents have representation. I think it’s representative of the way as a mum you can’t win because if I had maternity cover it would be a different issue, and I don’t and I don’t want to short-change my residents”
- Labour’s Stella Creasy, on being told she could no longer bring her threemonth-old son into the Commons chamber.
“Everything in the past has been about the negative side of Amy. You never get to see or hear about her positiveness and all the great things that she did. This exhibition dispels all of that and basically relegates it over there somewhere” - Mitch
Winehouse, father of Amy Winehouse, at the opening of a new exhibition at London’s Design Museum exploring the creative legacy of his daughter.
“There is no question that the environment for journalism is now more difficult and dangerous than ever, and no doubt that it represents a growing assault on truth and media freedom” - BBC chairman Richard Sharp speaking at the VLV Autumn Conference.
“I don’t think I’ve been this excited about Christmas since I got my first guinea-pig from Santa in 1978.” - Mel Giedroyc on being announced as the latest celebrity taking part in the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas special.