The Courier & Advertiser (Perth and Perthshire Edition)
QUOTES OF THE DAY
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What we will do is continue to put our arms around the people of this country going through a very tough time and come up with the appropriate creative and imaginative schemes to keep them in work and keep the economy moving.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson, after he was challenged about the prospect of support being withdrawn from firms and workers despite the latest coronavirus restrictions.
I’m quite prepared to accept that a government will make mistakes in a pandemic like this and one or two U-turns is probably a sign of a government listening and then changing. But when you have got 12 in a row, the only conclusion is serial incompetence. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer.
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What we need is the government, particularly our prime minister, this man sitting down with his Union Jack talking utter nonsense, that’s where we need leadership.
Julian Metcalfe, the founder of Pret a Manger and boss of the Itsu chain of restaurants.
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The duke is not a working member of the royal family and any comments he makes are made in a personal capacity.
Buckingham Palace appears to distance itself from comments made by the Duke of Sussex as Harry urged people in the
US to “reject hate speech” and vote in the presidential elections.