THEY SAID WHAT?

“It’s like walking through a snowstorm. You could inadvertently go over a cliff or down a crevasse or whatever, simply because you don’t know where you are going” - Lord Darling, Labour’s former

chancellor, on Brexit. “I’m possibly one of the least patient people in the world. I’ve never quite mastered the idea”

- Broadcaster John Humphrys. “I quite recently had the dream about oversleeping, not making it into the programme at all and having to get through to the studio from home and present the programme from my bed, which is just a bizarre, bizarre thought” - Mishal Husain, below, Today

programme presenter. “This is a horse - I’m very happy to say” - The Duchess of Cornwall after doing some impromptu painting in Singapore. “We must not allow Isis to return, or enter, our country after defeating them in the Middle East and elsewhere. Enough!” - President Trump after the New York terror attack which killed eight people. “We suffer from this illusion, or reality I suppose, where some problems become so big no-one wants to get involved. She was the one who wanted to change that” - Prince Harry on his mother

Princess Diana. “The young-wannabe-comedian me who watched the show every year would be just as excited to hear that grown-up me is going to be hosting - only I’ll be doing it without the 1970s pudding bowl haircut that made me look like a young male monk” - Comedienne Miranda Hart, who will be the first woman to host the

Royal Variety Performance.