THEY SAID WHAT?

“Politicians made promises that could never be delivered and then quit and left everybody else to clear up after them”

Amanda Chetwynd-Cowieson, co-founder of For Our Future’s Sake, on Brexit.

“We talk about the missing millions in terms of birds in our countryside. We’re about to entertain the missing millions in terms of funding. Organisations like the RSPB are going to be millions of pounds short of funding they would have got from Europe” TV’s Springwatch star Chris Packham on Brexit.

“They have been actively supporting right-wing political parties and politicians. I don’t understand why the press, the political establishment and the public are so reluctant to call out what the Russians have been doing” Hillary Clinton on the “cyber war” allegedly being mounted by Russia on the West.

“I like Taylor’s music 25% less now”

US President Donald Trump on the disclosure that singer Taylor Swift now supports the Democrats.

“The Westminster Government stumbles from day to day and disaster to disaster. It’s hard to watch that unfolding calamity and feel anything other than despair” Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s First Minister.

“We have crumbling prisons and an inability to give a safe, decent and secure regime to large numbers of men and women in our care due to lack of staff, not fit for purpose contracts and a much more violent, disrespectful, gang and drug affiliated population” Andrea Albutt, president of the Prison Governors’ Association.

“The notion of privacy is important but you don’t want to be living in a country where raids take place and nobody knows” Lord Hall, director-general of the BBC, on Sir Cliff Richard’s court victory over the BBC in the privacy case concerning the police raid on the pop star’s home.

“I told him his actions over the past three weeks had led me to believe something inappropriate was going on. He aggressively, and repeatedly, called me a psycho/nuts/mental” Actress Rebecca Humphries, after dumping comedian Seann Walsh because of the kiss he shared with his Strictly Come Dancing partner Katya Jones.

“I can eat a man, but I’m not sure of the fibre content” Comedian Jenny Eclair.

“If women want respect in society they must do their part to raise their own value. Stop throwing it away on empty display”

Feminist academic Camille Paglia on singer Ariana Grande’s skimpy outfit at Aretha Franklin’s funeral.

“Pathetic” Graham Norton’s description of the decision to disclose the salaries of its best-paid stars.