THEY SAID WHAT?

“Nobody should have to sleep rough and that’s why we must do all we can to help the most vulnerable in our society get the support they need. But we recognise this is a complex issue as well as ensuring people have somewhere to live, we have to deal with underlying problems and ultimately help people turn their lives around”

- Prime Minister Theresa May announcing a plan to end rough

sleeping.

“I had no pencil and paper, but I could write in my head. I wrote my first book, Taken On Trust, in my head. I was chained up for 23 hours and 50 minutes a day. I had no books or papers and no companionship. I slept on the floor. The only way I could survive was to keep myself mentally alive. I didn’t ever feel the close presence of God. I felt alone”

- Author Terry Waite recalling his

years of captivity in Beirut. “’I’m vilified for apparently being some kind of sexual predator, which is absolutely laughable”

- TV presenter Melanie Sykes, above.

“Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall”

- Playwright Alan Bennett.

“Boris just needs to be Boris - true to his nature and his calling - and I think he has potential to be a great prime minister, not a good one”

- Steve Bannon, former aide to US

President Donald Trump.

“We have all seen how even male terrorists have escaped arrest by donning a burka and making an effective getaway. For reasons of national security, there will be places like Parliament or Whitehall or town halls and council chambers where the burka should not be allowed”

- Michael Nazir-Ali, former Bishop

of Rochester.