THEY SAID WHAT?

“All too often young people receive only the most basic education before being forced out of school through discrimination, poverty or simply the expectations of society”

- The Prime Minister, addressing

Commonwealth leaders.

“The situation around Syria has deteriorated significantly. Obviously that is the result of the reckless actions by Washington, London and Paris. What is going right now is they are making every effort possible to look for the face-saving exit of the situation they themselves created. They are trying to whitewash their action. There is pretty much smoke around the whole thing”

- Yury Filetov, Russian ambassador in Dublin.

“Anti-Semitism is making me an outsider in my Labour Party. To that, I simply say enough is enough”

- Labour MP Dame Margaret Hodge, below.

“One anti-Semite in the Labour Party is one too many”

- Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott.

“We all have problems with a president who is erratic, capricious, is regarded with open contempt by the public officials who’ve worked with him, and who even now in the middle of this crisis seems to regard President Assad and President Putin as less of a problem than Stormy Daniels and Robert Mueller”

- Sir Vince Cable, Liberal Democrat leader.

“I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up”

- Barbara Bush, former White House First Lady, who has just died aged 92.