THEY SAID WHAT?

“I want the broadest and deepest possible agreement – covering more sectors and co-operating more fully than any free trade agreement anywhere in the world today. I believe that is achievable because it is in the EU’s interests as well as ours” - Prime Minister Theresa May on Brexit.

“Twenty months after the referendum, the Government still has no answers to the critical questions facing the negotiations. On the contrary, the Government is paralysed by its own divisions” - Shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer.

“Any vision of the future must take into account the fact that the EU cannot and will not compromise on its founding principles” - Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator.

“I was told you were done by the time you’re 40 and you definitely shouldn’t talk about having children, because that made you less sexy. I’m still working, and there are tonnes of other women working around my age, and the main reason for that is female producers and female writers and directors and people who are willing to try and get money for a female-driven story where all the characters are not 22” - Actress Susan Sarandon, now aged 71.

“I am dancelexic. I am 6ft 2in tall and my feet are so far away from my brain that I can’t get them to do what I want them to do” - Actor Nigel Planer, who has turned down an invitation to appear on Strictly Come Dancing.

“Please return the ladder or further steps will be taken” - Notice spotted in an Oxfordshire shop.