THEY SAID WHAT?

“Every day I wish I wasn’t famous”

– celebrity chef Jamie Oliver.

“A middle-aged musician nursing a hangover in his mate’s dressing room is a dead duck”

– former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr.

“With all that we have today, I think it has become difficult for young people to fully appreciate the hardships we endured during the war. It was hard but it was also fulfilling”

– Dame Vera Lynn, 101, the Forces

Sweetheart. “Why do women athletes have to be naked? I watched figure skating and the woman is virtually naked. She has got a few wisps of cloth and the man is in evening dress. You think nakedness is usually a sign of submission, it’s a sign of inequality”

– feminist and academic Germaine Greer, pictured.

“If you are a gay in it, you are a second-class citizen, really, and subjected, at a certain point, to a brick wall, in terms of getting on”

– actor Rupert Everett on the “aggressively heterosexual” nature of the film industry.

“We have got the wrong leader. If we had a leader who actually believed in Brexit and was prepared to see there was a vision for the future we could make a success of it” – Nigel Farage, former Ukip leader.

“We need to ensure that we keep measures in place that enable us to deal with those people who come to the UK illegally. What we do need to ensure is that, as we are applying those measures, we don’t see people inadvertently caught up in that who are British and have the legal right to be in the UK”

– The Prime Minister

on immigration.