Quotes of the day

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One of the best things about this part is, when you get to my age, the first thing I do is look at the end and usually I either die or I go senile. It’s very seldom that I get parts where they end on a positive note, or even a half-positive note, or continue to exist. They have to be tragic.

Actress Sheila Hancock, 85, enjoys her role in her new film, Edie. “

I’ve been alone less than three hours. I’m late to work, slightly covered in baby milk, OK baby vomit, my son is furious about his packed lunch – don’t ask – and my wife is away for three days. This hasn’t started well.

Tory MP Tom Tugendhat struggles to cope during his wife’s absence on business.

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Once I got into a black cab right after voting and the driver said ‘Do all the MPs have such pretty PAs these days?’ Labour MP Tulip Siddiq.

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I’m awful. I don’t play it, I don’t watch it. I was probably the worst casting choice they could have made in that regard.

Teenage actor Brenock O’Connor, who has a footballing role in The Bromley Boys.