QUOTES OFTHEDAY

“We have a vaccine for the world, because we’ve got a vaccine which is highly effective – it prevents severe disease and hospitalisation.”

- Professor Andrew Pollard, above, director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, on the news the Oxford University and AstraZeneca vaccine was found to be up to 90% effective.

“I saw it in everyone’s faces back in June how much time and effort was going into this, and I could see that there was a lot of pressure on everyone, so I’m so thrilled that you’ve cracked it – so really well done.”

- The Duke of Cambridge congratulates the Oxford/

AstraZeneca team.

“This will still be a hard winter. Christmas cannot be normal and there’s a long road to spring. But we have turned a corner and the escape route is in sight.”

- Prime Minister Boris Johnson unveils his winter plan to the Commons.

“Have you pressed the button by mistake, Prime Minister? It’s not our end, Prime Minister, it could well be yours.”

- Speaker of the House of Commons Sir Lindsay Hoyle jokes with the PM after Mr Johnson lost sound while appearing remotely from Downing Street.

“Looking from the outside in, what it looked like, ‘Mate you’ll be fine, you’ll be cool’, but in that moment just being overwhelmed by so many people looking up and seeing, you know, international news helicopters taking in the speech I was making it was like, ‘OK cool, now I’m not just speaking to people that follow me, I’m speaking to the world’.”

- Actor John Boyega on the speech he gave in London in June this year

during a Black Lives Matter rally.