THEY SAID WHAT?

“A dedicated and respected heir to the throne to stand comparison with any in history - and a wonderful father”

- The Queen pays tribute to her son the Prince of Wales on his 70th birthday.

“I’ve not been on telly for ages and I don’t want to do any more, it’s fine, I’m having a lovely time, but they still follow me around, the paparazzi”

- Former TV presenter Judy

Finnigan.

“Victory in Dublin, chaos in London” - Brexit headline in the Irish Examiner.

“We have gone from no deal is better than a bad deal, to any deal is better than no deal. I cannot defend this, and I cannot vote for this deal. I could not look my constituents in the eye were I to do that”

- Esther McVey, below, quits as Work and Pensions Secretary. “I cannot reconcile the terms of the proposed deal with the promises we made to the country in our manifesto at the last election. This is, at its heart, a matter of public trust”

- Dominic Raab, who has resigned

as Brexit Secretary.

“Long, detailed and impassioned”

- The Prime Minister’s description of the Cabinet debate on the Brexit proposals.

“There was an epiphany and I suddenly thought, actually what am I worrying about, really just shake off the coat of self-consciousness and go for it. I’m in that zone now and it is hopefully onward and upwards”

- TV newsreader Kate Silverton on being a Strictly Come Dancing

contestant.