THEY SAID WHAT?

“Cash is king for any business, and big companies are managing their cash by borrowing - interest free from their suppliers. Some of the biggest names in business are holding cash piles that don’t actually belong to them. It’s a national scandal. And it’s stopping businesses from growing and causing thousands to go bust every year. It kills jobs and holds back economic growth” Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn

“Things had been bonkers. I mean, there was a moment when we thought Andrea Leadsom might be prime minister. But with Boris I had a personal crisis. I thought ‘Oh no this can’t have happened”’ TV satirist Ian Hislop recalls how shocked he was when Boris Johnson was made Foreign Secretary

“Showbusiness, and this is going to sound like a cliche, is a horrendous business. It’s really difficult, it’s backstabbing, it’s competitive, I think only 3% of the industry are working at any one time, so of course I have come across so many obstacles” Actress Amanda Holden, above

“Occasionally I’ve been asked to do American roles, and once or twice I have, but I don’t understand Americans. I don’t have any real feeling for American culture” Actor Jim Broadbent

“They’re going to have to call it Morse Code. Bleep bleep bleep!” TV chef Gordon Ramsay when asked about swearing during his forthcoming daytime TV show

“A beautiful thing” Eric Trump, son of the US President, expresses a view about nepotism