THEY SAID WHAT?

“I don’t deserve my fortune. Nobody does. It has come through timing, luck and through people. I have paid more than $10bn in taxes, but I should have paid more” - Bill Gates, billionaire founder of

Microsoft.

“I would say he thought he was making a deal. It would be very unlikely that some women were not aware of what was going on, and allowed themselves to be abused. People will sell their souls for a role”

- Actor Steven Berkoff on Harvey

Weinstein.

“I do think it is bad-mannered to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them a joke. I leave plays without jokes to the younger artists”

- Actor Bill Nighy. “I didn’t have a safety net, man! I didn’t graduate from college. I don’t come from money”

- Actress Anne Hathaway, above.

“It’s an incredibly iconic building around the world and, of course, the last time it got rebuilt was because it caught fire and burnt down, so we don’t want to wait until that point, so we do need to take action and that’s what we’re doing” - Commons leader Andrea Leadsom saying politicians must “crack on” with the restoration of the Palace of Westminster.

“There’s always something to talk about, and you can find romance in nature, you just have to get out there and look for it”

- Love Island winner Jack Fincham, who is to join Chris Packham on a new TV nature programme.

“A man who knows that the world’s best birds are fully feathered!”

- Chris Packham on Jack Fincham.

“Hard Brexit: a straight shot of bathtub gin, with no imported botanicals”

- Democrat congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez designs a Hard Brexit cocktail