THEY SAID WHAT?

“I think working for the BBC is brilliant and the BBC are a fantastic organisation, and they provide value for money. But I’d be lying if I told you it’s not awkward for people to know how much you earn”

- BBC TV presenter Dan Walker.

“The whole situation is a complete disgrace in the United Kingdom in 2018, and Government ministers and officials responsible for this policy area should be hanging their heads in shame”

- Andrew Selous, Tory MP and former minister, calling for a crackdown on policies dealing with illegal Traveller sites.

“Rather than allowing a unit in Downing Street to take on its own colleagues and backbenchers, and accuse and attack them, the best thing is always for them to say, ‘I tell you what, let’s get together and thrash this out and see what we can come up with’. That’s a far better approach because it carries the party with you”

- Another ex-Tory leader Iain

Duncan Smith on Brexit. “I wonder, if I’d stayed here as a working-class northern actress, whether I would have had this career path. In America, my accent’s not a thing, I’m just British - ‘Where’s Manchester? In London?”’

- Vanity Fair star Olivia Cooke, above, on what might have been

if she had not gone to the US.

“I broke a bank. I did something really bad and I’ve been trying to rebuild my reputation since that point”

- Nick Leeson, who was jailed after the collapse of Barings Bank in 1995 saying that being in Celebrity Big Brother was harder than being in prison.

“I love it when I get whistled at by builders. If they don’t I’ll walk past again until they do”

- Actress Su Pollard.