THEY SAID WHAT?

“The unique character of Glasgow, multicultural, welcoming, hugely creative, and irreverent, is a great fit for Channel 4”

- Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s First Minister, urging Channel 4 to make its headquarters in Scotland’s largest city.

“The British people voted overwhelmingly and the House of Lords is seeking to undermine that vote and in so doing damaging its own standing and reputation in the country”

- Tory former minister Lord

Forsyth on Brexit.

“You can hear them. I just hide in my little room, I don’t know who they are. But you can hear them. They’re loud!”

- Singer SuRie, below, the UK’s entrant for the Eurovision Song Contest, when asked if there were any divas she would have to compete with. “If ice cream isn’t part of your revolution, it’s no revolution at all”

- Labour MP Stella Creasy responds to criticism of a photograph of herself relaxing in a park in her Walthamstow constituency while eating an ice cream.

“The consistent flouting of agreements that our country is a party to risks eroding America’s credibility, and puts us at odds with the world’s major powers”

- Former US president Barack Obama attacks Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal as “misguided” and “a serious mistake”.

“Even when I was in college, if I came home with anything but a strong Welsh accent then my family would rip me straightaway: ‘What’s happened to you? You think you’re all posh now you live in London?’“

- Actor Luke Evans.