Who said it

“There is early evidence that the lockdown is starting to bring cases down but we are a long, long, long way from being low enough because the case rate was incredibly high”

- Health Secretary Matt Hancock.

“We may well be in a situation where we have to have an annual coronavirus vaccine... but the public should be reassured that these technologies are relatively easy to edit and tweak, so once we find strains that are predominant, the vaccines can be altered”

- Prof Anthony Harnden, deputy chairman of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).

“Participants believe they had been significantly more compliant than others in the UK general population. Those furthest from the respondents’ own social environment were seen to be the least compliant”

reader in geography at the University of Portsmouth, after a study revealed the gulf in perceptions of how the Covid-19 restrictions are being obeyed.

“It’s Robert Burns’s birthday tomorrow, our annual Burns Day. And when I hear Boris Johnson talk about this I bring to mind a Burns poem: ‘Cowerin’ timorous beastie, what a panic’s in thy breastie’. He’s frightened of democracy. The polls now show that a majority of people in Scotland now want independence”

- First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

“We all know how divisive a border poll would be. For us in Northern Ireland, what we have to do is all come together to fight against Covid and not be distracted by what would be absolutely reckless at this time” - Northern Ireland’s First Minister Arlene Foster on suggestions of a border poll on a united Ireland.