Who said it

“I am not going to deny there haven’t been big changes to the way our industry is operating but no one can realistically deny that those problems had been coming along for a very long time. If there is a number one cause, it quite clearly is the pandemic” - Transport Secretary Grant Shapps says the HGV driver shortage has nothing to do with Brexit. “Alarm bells should have sounded when we struggled to staff the Nightingale hospitals, so government really cannot afford to put this off any longer”

- Dr Chaand Nagpaul, British Medical Association council chairman, as it warned the NHS in England is short of 50,000 doctors ahead of what is expected to be one of the worst winters on record.

“It happened because no one was listening to poor people. The only reason these people died was because they were poor. There was no other reason other than that” - Oscar-winning filmmaker Sir Steve McQueen on the Grenfell Tower fire which claimed 72 lives and left hundreds homeless. “It is really weird. I have worked on television for 15 years, before that I had done a lot of radio, and I find myself today quite nervous”

- Jeremy Kyle as he made a return to broadcasting with a new show on talkRadio.

“I did have moments where I thought I might not be able to do this because I might not get medical sign-off, but I think more than anything, it just spurred me on more” - Kat Cordiner, 40, who has incurable cancer, is part of a female rowing trio who are aiming to break the world record for rowing across the Atlantic.