THEY SAID WHAT?

“Labour has more members than we’ve ever had before, more activists than we’ve ever had before. We have greater hostility from the mainstream media than we’ve probably ever had before “

– Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

“It’s easy to see politicians as caricatures, figures you love to hate, but they’re human beings”

– Actress Keeley Hawes.

“The horse and cart ride is over the top for a ninth-in-line. More people would turn out to see Steptoe and Son”

– Reported remark by the Queen’s former personal chef, Darren McGrady, on Princess Eugenie’s plan for a coach ride through Windsor after her wedding.

“It does seem, with hindsight, that all that fuss about the show moving from the BBC was so, I wouldn’t say manufactured, but it was so totally unnecessary to worry”

– TV cook Prue Leith, above, on the transfer of Great British Bake Off to Channel 4.

“I had lunch with Michael Palin last week at the Athenaeum. He’s so nice that I fell asleep during my main course”

– Comedian John Cleese.

“Under Mr Putin Russia’s aggressive and malign behaviour undermines the international order that keeps us safe. Of course we must engage with Moscow, but we must also be blunt: Russia’s foreign policy under President Putin has made the world a more dangerous place”

– Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt

speaking in Washington.

“Institutions we thought were on the way out, like Eton, seem to be thriving as never before. And institutions we thought were great ones for the future, like the NHS and the BBC, suddenly seem to be beleaguered”

– Comedian David Mitchell saying that opportunities for workingclass actors are worsening.