THEY SAID WHAT?

“People should take reassurance and comfort from the fact that the Government is saying we are in a negotiation, we are working for a good deal - I believe we can get a good deal - but... because we don’t know what the outcome is going to be... let’s prepare for every eventuality”

- The Prime Minister on Brexit.

“I can’t compete with Taylor Swift she’s got better legs than me”

- Sir Paul McCartney.

“My cats set up their own Instagram, clever pussles”

- Singer Ed Sheeran waxes sentimental about his pets. “I’m a 51-year-old woman, I can’t pretend to be who I was at 24. So yeah - Love Island; my kids are addicted to it, I walk through and I’m just like perplexed and horrified. I won’t have a facelift, sorry. You’ve got to look at my face like it is”

- Actress Polly Walker, above.

“I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria” - Sting.

“To be uninvited to what is possibly the dreariest literary festival in the world, with zero hospitality and no fun at all, is a great relief ”

- Germaine Greer who was “uninvited” to the Brisbane Writers’ Festival because her views on rape were “too controversial”.

“There’s a new cereal called Brexit. You eat it and you throw up afterwards” - Sir Elton John.

“The artifice of being blonde has some incredible sort of sexual connotation”

- Pop singer Madonna.

“I feel like an ape released back into the wild”

- Ex-foreign secretary Boris Johnson feels “relief and joy” after quitting the Cabinet over Brexit.