QUOTES of the week

‘Give me three good reasons why Britain should be part of Europe.’ Her Majesty the Queen, asking guests at a dinner before the Brexit vote why we should remain ‘Gibraltar announces before Sunderland. A rock beats a hard place.’ Peter Smith on Twitter after the British overseas territory returned its referendum vote before the Northern city famed for being first with count results. ‘We will recognise the Wembley goal.’ German newspaper Bild jokily tries to persuade British voters to remain by saying it would accept that Geoff Hurst’s goal in the 1966 World Cup Final did cross the line after hitting the bar. ‘I’m going to lose a s***load of money. I bet heavily on Remain’ Sounds like City worker Sam Farage, son of Nigel, won’t be joining the family’s Brexit party ‘Been in this traffic jam for 12 hours. That’s longer than any of my relationships.’ Glastonbury festivalgoer queuing to get into the event. ‘I really wanted to be a girl. Thank God the world of now wasn’t then... I’d be on hormones and I’d be a woman. After 15 I never wanted to be a woman again.’ Actor Rupert Everett, who dressed as ‘Mary Poppins’s daughter’ from the age of six to 14 before changing his mind about changing sex. ‘I got a look that would have frosted icing. There was nothing thrilling about it. It was a terrible thing to do.’ Pointless TV host Alexander Armstrong, recalls the reaction of Bake-Off star Mary Berry after he swore in front of her. ‘No, he’s right, when she was being killed she probably thought he should go to hell and burn for infinity.’ TV presenter Gabby Logan, right, tweets a furious response after Oscar Pistorius said that his murdered girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp wouldn’t have wanted him to go to prison.