THEY SAID WHAT?

“I think, I believe there will be a drug problem - there is a drug problem right across this country. I don’t believe that somebody who walks in here may not be tempted into drugs, and what I’m saying is that we should have health and wellbeing in place for drink and drug counselling and real support for anybody”

Deputy speaker of the House of Commons Sir Lindsay Hoyle says there is a problem with both drink and drugs inside Parliament as he addresses journalists at a hustings event for MPs running to replace John Bercow

“I regard it as a tremendous compliment to be called an unco-operative crusty. That was a remark made in humour” Boris Johnson’s father Stanley Johnson addresses recent comments by the Prime Minister at the Extinction Rebellion protest in central London

“I only spoke to her briefly and said, ‘I got it,’ and she sounded she was so surprised that her knees almost gave way” Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Akira Yoshino on breaking the news of the award to his wife

“I think in the longer term I’ve always had a really strong interest in aid and development work; I’ve supported a number of organisations that do work abroad. While my children are below school age themselves I think it would be unwise for me for my own health, my partner would kill me if I spent a lot of time abroad. But in the longer term that’s something I’m hugely interested in and would love at some point to go into this field” Scottish Conservative MSP Ruth Davidson on her ambitions after leaving politics in Scotland

“Nobody knew of how close I was to death with the infection, nobody knew I had cancer but, in the book, I couldn’t write it without it. I went through a lot of pain and it took me seven weeks after the infection to get back to normal” Sir Elton John tells Smooth Radio why he decided to talk about his recovery from cancer in his new memoir

“I approached the first couple of dances like a football analysis. I wrote down every step in a notebook and was trying to remember that way. The judges said I needed to put more emotion and feeling into it so the notebook has been binned now. I will now just be feeling my way around the dancefloor” Ex-footballer David James on his Strictly strategy