THEY SAID WHAT?

“It is with great regret that I am resigning as Home Secretary. I feel it is necessary to do so because I inadvertently misled the Home Affairs Select Committee over targets for removal of illegal immigrants during their questions on Windrush”

- Amber Rudd in her letter of resignation as Home Secretary.

“You can smell the undoubted odour of a government decomposing” - Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell.

“We know that Judi Dench gets offered all the roles first”

- Actress Dame Maggie Smith in teasing mood about her fellow dame. “It’s very strange, when something huge happens to your body, you don’t immediately feel the pain. I felt lots of warmth and a strange kind of serenity. I felt like my soul was rising up and seeing everything... Yes, I did expect to die. It was extraordinary”

- Actress Sophie Winkleman, above, describes her injuries

after a car crash last year.

“I dance a lot better without booze than I did with booze. If you don’t have to give up booze, then for God’s sake, don’t give up booze. I had to grieve not drinking. That was so sad. But I knew that alcohol was the gateway to drugs for me”

- Presenter Davina McCall.

“I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored”

- TV naturalist Sir David Attenborough.