QuOtes Of the day

Theresa May has jumped over all the hurdles during the past few months. She’s the champion hurdler of all time.” Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg.

All this fuss about a Virgin berth.” Journalist Marcus Leroux on the Jeremy Corbyn Traingate affair.

It tastes like grass.” Judge Mary Berry’s verdict on a cake submitted in the new series of The Great British Bake Off.

I’m a passionate proEuropean, and I will fight tooth and nail to keep us in the EU.” Labour leadership challenger Owen Smith.

Hillary Clinton is a bigot who sees people of colour only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future.” Donald Trump, Republican candidate for the White House, attacks his Democrat opponent Hillary Clinton.

He is scaring me to death. Why don’t people see through him? He has a following of millions of people. He reminds me of Mussolini back in the 1940s.” Hollywood veteran Dick Van Dyke, 90, on Donald Trump.