THEY SAID WHAT?

“As I walked in here, as I rushed in here today to come to this statement, I overheard two male colleagues walking through the halls wittering about a witch hunt that was going on in Parliament”

- Labour MP Jess Phillips. “We don’t want to see individuals who have been blameless being accused of things which, maybe, they hadn’t really done, or, maybe, at the time everyone was sloshed” - Tory MP Michael Fabricant on the current furore over inappropriate sexual advances. “I calmly and politely explained to him that if he did it again I would ‘punch him in the face”’ - What journalist Julia HartleyBrewer, below, said to Sir Michael Fallon, now Defence Secretary, who “repeatedly” touched her on the knee 15 years ago. Sir Michael apologised at the time. “People have an image in their heads of who I am and it’s really quite wrong. The party side of me isn’t a side that generally I allow to be seen. I went to see Rag ‘n’ Bone Man in concert recently and ended up on someone’s bed in the tour bus. I’m like a grenade you pull the pin on. Life is never, ever dull”

- TV’s Carol Vorderman. “I take no pleasure in Britain’s embarrassment. Those of us who are outside the country take absolutely no pleasure in the low ebb to which Britain has sunk. Brits abroad look at the fact other countries see us in retreat, having lost our way” - David Miliband, former Labour foreign secretary, who is fiercely

anti-Brexit.