QUOTES OF THE DAY

“We have set out what is affordable given the very significant challenges in public finances”

– Health Secretary Matt Hancock defends the Government’s controversial recommendation of a 1% pay rise for NHS workers amid growing anger and the threat of industrial action.

“NHS workers are furious at the Government’s recommendation of a 1% pay increase... Ministers have followed this with an even more contemptuous defence of the paltry increase – essentially saying ‘It’s better than nothing’.”

– Rachel Harrison, national officer of the GMB union, criticises the 1% pay

offer.

“We are exhausted, we are demoralised, we are fed up - but there is also an increased level of anger”

– Holly Turner, a nurse from Colchester, shares her views on the proposed pay rise.

“We have the ability to make our own choices in a way that I couldn’t have said yes to you then... As an adult who lived a really independent life to then go into this construct that is... different than I think what people imagine it to be, it’s really liberating to be able to have the right and the privilege in some ways to be able to say yes”

– The Duchess of Sussex speaks about the constraints she faced when a working royal during her

interview with Oprah Winfrey.

“It has been an incredible journey, when you think about what a big week this has been for our family... Would he be chuffed? Absolutely, he was that man all about nature, being outside most of his life”

– Captain Sir Tom Moore’s daughter Lucy Teixeira, above, speaks after the Trees for Tom initiative raised £100,000.