THEY SAID WHAT?

“There is no hiding from the fact that the coronavirus outbreak will present significant challenges for the UK just as it does in other countries”

- Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

“What we are moving now to is a phase when we will be having to ask members of the general public to do different things than they would normally do”

- England’s chief medical officer

Professor Chris Whitty.

“We will miss them. They just look as if they belong”

- Royal commentator Penny Junor after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s last appearance as working royals, below.

“It wasn’t the warm reunion that we were all hoping for. The tension in Harry’s body language especially was palpable”

- Body language expert Judi James on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s encounter with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

“My heart is scattered all over that beach. I will never go back there as long as I live”

- Nathan Rowe whose daughter Ava-May Littleboy died when the inflatable trampoline that she was playing on exploded at Gorleston-on-Sea in Norfolk.

“So in short, it won’t deliver the economic boost some claim, it isn’t a priority, it would go to the wrong location, it wouldn’t be consistent with climate change objectives and the money could be better spent on other things. Apart from that, it’s a cracking idea”

- A blog post from economic think tank the Fraser of Allander Institute dismisses Boris Johnson idea for a bridge between Scotland and Northern Ireland.