THEY SAID WHAT?

“There has been no backlash at all. The story of the moment is that the notionally conservative Doctor Who fandom has utterly embraced that change. I wish every single journalist who is writing the alternative would shut the hell up”

Steven Moffat, the writer of Doctor Who, on the choice of a woman in the title role

“You can have a very successful career or a great family life, but not both. I thought I was superwoman. I thought you could do it all, but you can’t. Or you can do it all, but you can’t do it all well” Veteran singer Petula Clark, below

“I’m a bit grizzled, going a bit weird around the edges. But if I had been born Audrey Marr rather than Andrew Marr, I’d have been out 10 years ago”

BBC broadcaster Andrew Marr, 57

“I can’t tell you what made him laugh because they will put me in the Tower and feed me to the corgis. There might have been a reference to the Crown Jewels. That’s all I can say”

Writer Kathy Lette recalls sharing a saucy joke with Prince Charles

“Jeremy Corbyn and his top team made a welter of outlandish promises to young people during the election - including the abolition of student debt - that they are now shamelessly abandoning. The Labour party’s policy platform for students is disintegrating before our eyes”

Universities Minister Jo Johnson

“We never said we would completely abolish it because we were unaware of the size of it at the time”

Jeremy Corbyn on student debt