THEY SAID WHAT?

“I do not want any of the Commonwealth citizens who are here legally to be impacted in the way they have. Frankly, some of the ways they have been treated has been wrong, has been appalling and I am sorry”

– Home Secretary Amber Rudd on deportation threats to the so-called Windrush immigrants from the Caribbean.

“It is a day of national shame, inhumane and cruel”

– Labour MP David Lammy on the Windrush people.

“Many people focus on the impact of action but actually inaction would have given a message that these chemical weapons could continue to be used by the Syrian regime and indeed by others with impunity and we cannot allow that to happen”

– Prime Minister Theresa May. “You are accountable to this Parliament, not to the whims of the US President”

– Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, above, accuses the Prime Minister over the Government’s refusal to consult Parliament before taking part in the air strikes on Syria.

“During the Cold War there were channels of communication and there was no obsession with Russophobia, which looks like genocide by sanctions”

– Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, saying that relations between Moscow and the West were now worse than during the Cold War.

“She’ll bolt. She’s bolted before”

– Feminist Germaine Greer predicting that Prince Harry’s marriage to Meghan Markle will be short-lived.