THEY SAID WHAT?
“We’ll be pressing government to legislate at home and work with partners abroad to call time on the fiddles and ruses that allow people to dodge the duty we all owe to the society we live in” - Labour MP John Mann who is chairing a Commons sub-committee probing tax avoidance and evasion. “I’m a vulnerable dude a lot in real life. So I’m not worried about being the ultra-tough guy and always being unstoppable or invincible” - Actor John Cena on his film
roles. “The largest collective expulsion of Russian intelligence officers in history” - The Prime Minister on the scale of the expulsion of dozens of Russian diplomats from Western capitals after the poison gas attack in Salisbury. “She’s been in the situation of being an honorary man for a very long time. You know people get used to the fact maybe you can have a conversation about things which they otherwise wouldn’t talk to women about”
- The Princess Royal, Princess Anne, above, on her mother the
Queen. “It is terrible that the leadership has brought our party into such gross disrepute” - David Miliband, Labour’s former foreign secretary, on the anti-Semitism row. “This decision reflects the shocking nature of the attack - the first offensive use of chemical weapons in Europe since the Second World War, involving a highly lethal substance in a populated area, endangering countless other members of the community” - Malcolm Turnbull, the Australian Prime Minister