THEY SAID WHAT?

“The United States will not be a migrant camp and it will not be a refugee-holding facility - not on my watch. Illegal actions have and must have consequences. No more free passes, no more get-out-of-jailfree cards”

- US President Donald Trump on

his immigration policy.

“Everyone sitting in a Whitehall conference room needs to recognise that, out there, cannabis is ubiquitous, and issuing orders to the police to defeat its use is about as up-to-date and relevant as asking the Army to recover the Empire. The war on cannabis is irreversibly lost”

- Lord (William) Hague, former Tory leader, calling for a relaxation of the law on cannabis. “With a book that is going to be sold into schools, you get a list of things that are unacceptable - no witches, no demons, no alcohol, no death, no religion. It really does cut down what you can write about”

- Author Geraldine McCaughrean, above, claiming that children’s books are being sanitised and dumbed down.

“You are a gentleman. Promise me you will never raise your hand against my daughter, and of course I give you my permission”

- What Thomas Markle said when Prince Harry asked for his daughter Meghan’s hand in marriage.

“I almost spat my cornflakes out”

- Paul Burrell, former butler to Diana, Princess of Wales, records his reaction to hearing Thomas Markle divulging on TV his conversation with Prince Harry.

“I’ve had enough of men telling me how I should be a feminist. I’ve had enough of it”

- Susanna Reid, co-presenter of ITV’s Good Morning Britain.