QUOTES OF THE DAY

“School, college and university should be a safe space for girls to learn. Instead, just like in high streets, parks and bus stops, they are facing relentless harassment every day and they want it to stop”

- Rose Caldwell, chief executive of

Plan International UK.

“I think as soon as we have done the priority groups in the UK we should be contemplating sending spare doses to those countries who are not in the same fortunate position that we are”

- Professor Paul Heath, chief investigator for the Novavax Covid-19 vaccine trial in the UK.

“What we can’t do is go down the route of banning people from making a living, pursuing a profession, long after they’ve left political life”

- Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng, above, after criticism of David Cameron’s connection with collapsed financial services company Greensill Capital.

“Of course some people can’t drive when they are older but if you can you can’t restrict people. If there is one thing I dread in getting older it is losing the ability to drive. In my 20s and 30s I had quite a few accidents. Over the last 30 years none at all, absolutely none at all”

- TV presenter Johnny Ball criticises proposed new rules for older drivers.

“At one point the book was going to be called Eat Your Porridge, because it’s the first life lesson, it’s about starting your day as you mean to go on and having structure and routine to your day. He ate porridge every day of his life even out in Burma and India and he swore by it”

- Writer Wendy Holden, who worked on Captain Sir Tom Moore’s book of advice, Captain Tom’s Life Lessons.