THEY SAID WHAT?

“Do you share my dismay that Brexit doesn’t mean we’re leaving the Eurovision Song Contest?”

– Tory MP Michael Fabricant, speaking in the Commons.

“Workers in British shipyards, from Plymouth to Rosyth, share a proud tradition – building the best ships in the world. But the Conservative Government is trashing that tradition by offering up the Ministry of Defence’s most recent contract for three new Fleet Solid Support Ships to overseas companies to build abroad. Shipbuilding is not a lame duck”

– Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

“Please don’t invite me to an event and then uninvite me because Bill Clinton then decided to attend”

– Monica Lewinsky, pictured below, who had a sexual encounter with the ex-president in the White House.

“The grammar school corpse has climbed out of its coffin once again despite evidence of the damage that selective education causes”

– Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union on the news that the Government is giving grammar schools millions of pounds to expand.

“I was quite panicked by this project and I read every book there is on the subject. I met lots of people that knew Thorpe. I dug up old films, out of the bowels of the BBC. I don’t know if it does any good, but it soothed me a bit”

– actor Hugh Grant on playing Jeremy Thorpe in a TV version of the former Liberal leader’s trial and acquittal for conspiracy to murder.