THEY SAID WHAT?

“There is no nice way to eat an oyster. It’s a bit like trying to eat a fried egg out of a soap dish”

- Writer Michael Deacon.

“To be frank, Mr Blair hasn’t really listened to the nature of the debate that is going on in the pubs, the clubs and school gates etc” - Shadow chancellor John McDonnell.

“Philip Hammond has disgraced himself with this remark, as well as managing to insult half the country’s population. People will say it’s nothing, just a joke. Women were entirely missing from his industrial strategy and his budgets make poor women poorer” - Labour MP Jess Phillips on the Chancellor’s alleged remark that trains are now so easy to drive that even a woman could do it.

“We are all sexist now. The 70s was a Neanderthal era, but at least in those early feminist days there was also a degree of common sense and solidarity to mitigate the misogyny” - Broadcaster and agony aunt

Mariella Frostrup, above.

“Well nothing like cutting your finger live on TV on a Saturday morning to keep you on your toes. Thanks so much for the lovely tweets and support - I’m all good. Thankfully not too deep - but glad to join that exclusive club of hosts who’ve done exactly the same” - Chef Donal Skehan who cut his finger on the TV show Saturday

Kitchen Live.

“I talk non-stop. My mates turn to me all the time and say: ‘God, you just don’t shut up”’

- Singer Olly Murs.