THEY SAID WHAT?

“It’s shocking and humiliating that the Chancellor has been forced to come here to reverse a key Budget decision announced less than a week ago”

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell, on the Government’s U-turn on the planned National Insurance increase for the selfemployed announced in the Budget

“Unless the Corbyn team actually planned for that to be a car crash, the inquest should be long, hard, and honest. He just can’t do it”

Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s former spin doctor, criticises Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s Commons reaction to the Government’s National Insurance U-turn

“It is always a closed set for the sex scenes. I found it quite amusing if you put a whoopee cushion underneath someone. It breaks the ice. Sex scenes are massively awkward, but you can make them funny”

Downton Abbey star Jessica Brown Findlay, above, who plays an 18th century prostitute in a new TV series

“What is worse? To be captured dad dancing on video in a Verbier nightclub, and having your ungainly moves broadcast all over the world, or to be caught doing it while shirking the annual Commonwealth Day service in Westminster Abbey, an important event in the royal calendar?”

Royal expert Penny Junor

“If I get to be her age with even half as much of her zest for life, I’ll be very happy”

Virginia Lewis-Jones, daughter of Forces Sweetheart Dame Vera Lynn, who is approaching her 100th birthday