THEY SAID WHAT?

“Our hope was to continue serving the Queen, the Commonwealth and my military associations, but without public funding. Unfortunately, that wasn’t possible. I hope that helps you understand what it had to come to, that I would step my family back from all I have ever known, to take a step forward into what I hope can be a more peaceful life”

- The Duke of Sussex explains his

decision to leave royal duties behind in an emotional speech at a private event for his charity

Sentebale.

“It feels a very different organisation – more innovative, more open, more inclusive, more efficient, more commercially aware. And a BBC that’s on cracking creative form”

- Lord Tony Hall, above, says the BBC is in a “much stronger place” than when he joined as he announces will step down as director-general this summer.

“I find trying to prove where you come from, as if that is all that matters to the voters, a bit patronising. I think it’s what you do and how you live now that matters and are you in touch now with the country and what people talk about”

- Labour leadership hopeful Jess Phillips hits out at the idea that having a working-class background is all that matters to voters in the contest to replace Jeremy Corbyn.

“We’ve seen over the last few years they (police) are under-resourced and overstretched and they need our help to deal with the scourge of the increase in knife crime we’ve seen across our country, and London hasn’t escaped that”

- Mayor of London Sadiq Khan speaks to reporters at the scene of a street fight in Ilford that left three men dead.