THEY SAID WHAT?

“I will probably win. I’m ready to be prime minister tomorrow” - A confident Jeremy Corbyn, Labour leader, looks forward to the next general election.

“He goes, ‘The thing about English people is when they meet fear, they run away. In Russia, we meet fear, we shake them by the head’. I thought, ‘Oh God”’ - Actor James Norton reports what a Russian martial arts trainer told him as he prepares for a tough role in a new BBC thriller.

“I was black and bloody blue” - Coronation Street actor Daniel Brocklebank after being locked in a car boot as part of the soap’s story line.

“When in other countries MPs are threatened with violence because of how they’re voting, we call that tyranny, we call that fascism, but that is what is happening here” - Harriet Harman, above, former deputy leader of the Labour Party.

“The wedding of Harry and Meghan in May next clashes with the Connacht Sheep Shearing Championships in Corofin, Co Galway” - Declan Varley, editor of the

Galway Advertiser.

“Australia are on course for a whitewash against a washed-out opponent” - The Australian newspaper on the Ashes.

“Much of it pollutes political debate with daily doses of personal venom and infantile nonsense that degrades our democracy” - Baroness (Betty) Boothroyd, former Speaker of the House of Commons on social media, writing for The Times Red Box.