Who said it

“The international situation is now more perilous and intensely competitive than at any time since the Cold War. Everything we do in this country – every job, every business, even how we shop and what we eat – depends on a basic minimum of global security” - Boris Johnson, as he set out a £16.5 billion rise in defence spending over four years. “We’re on the cusp of being able to protect those elderly people who we love through vaccination, and it would be tragic to throw that opportunity away and waste the gains we’ve made during lockdown by trying to return to normality over the holidays” - Andrew Hayward, professor of infectious disease epidemiology at University College London (UCL) and a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), says

mixing at Christmas poses substantial risks.

“The independent investigation is a step in the right direction. It should help establish the truth behind the actions that led to the Panorama interview and subsequent decisions taken by those in the BBC at the time”

- The Duke of Cambridge tentatively welcomes an investigation into the BBC’s Panorama interview with his mother.

“My parents, my dad in particular, he came from a generation where he found it hard to say he loved us and put his arm around us. But we have very much changed. Please God, today we can be big enough to be able to speak about it in the household” - Ronan Keating, on ending the stigma around speaking about mental health as he joined Loose Women’s first all-male panel.