THEY SAID WHAT?

“I think people are weary of the long slog” Chancellor Philip Hammond indicating that the Government might ease austerity “Have I ruined your show?” Ex-Spice Girl Geri Horner (nee Halliwell) who talked incessantly during the TV programme Saturday Kitchen “George Michael pulled the platform boots off my feet and said, ‘I think it’s time we brushed your hair”’ Geri Horner on how the late singer helped to remove her Spice Girl image “My ambition is to live until I’m 120 and then be shot by a jealous husband” Sir Ken Dodd, below “I would be richer, I’d have beaten Mrs Thatcher’s ban on women in the cabinet, and I would be a dame” Former Tory Minister Edwina Currie on what she would change if she could edit her past “All the awards shows are fake. And all the awards that I’ve won are fake”

Singer Kate Perry “I haven’t baked anything since Paul Hollywood took one bite of my cake, spat it out and said it was absolutely disgusting”

Joanna Lumley “It feels like being washed up on a desert island and being handed a fluffy towel and a hot cup of tea” Michael Gove, the new Environment Secretary, on his return to the Cabinet after feeling “shipwrecked” when he was sacked last year