THEY SAID WHAT?

“Deplorable as Trump is in every way, and the movement that got him there, it comes out of people being left to rot. It’s happening across Europe and our country – the old industries go and nothing replaces it. People are left as casual labour and in any decent society you would plan for that change”

Film-maker Ken Loach

“I cannot think of two human beings with less natural chemical, biological or physical affinity than Donald Trump and Theresa May. He is extrovert and never stops talking. She seems to regard public communication as an infrequent and painful necessity like going to the dentist” Charles Moore, Margaret

Thatcher’s biographer

Yes, I have thought a lot about blowing up the White House, but I know that won’t change anything” Singer Madonna, above, during an anti-Trump demonstration in Washington

“I don’t think I am actually (a member of the Establishment) and I don’t think those that are in the Establishment would really count me as one of their normal members”

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn

“The British Government’s intention to take the north of Ireland out of the EU, despite the wish of the people there to remain, is a hostile action. Not just because of the implications of a hard border on this island, but also because of its negative impact on the Good Friday Agreement”

Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams

“The decision to withhold news last summer that a Trident missile test experienced some kind of problem – ironically, almost certainly minor – is both bizarre and spectacularly stupid” Admiral Lord West, former First

Sea Lord