THEY SAID WHAT?

“I just want to say... if it is correct, which I cannot believe that it really is, but if it is correct, that the BBC is saying that they will not sing the words of Land Of Hope And Glory or Rule, Britannia! as they traditionally do at the end of the Last Night Of The Proms, I think it’s time we stopped our cringing embarrassment about our history, about our traditions and about our culture, and we stopped this general bout of self-recrimination and wetness”

- PM Boris Johnson, above, on the decision to remove lyrics from some traditional anthems at the Last Night Of The Proms.

“There is a very human level to this and she is a public servant and you have every sympathy for her because she is a nice individual and no doubt dedicated and hardworking but clearly things have gone badly wrong. Whether if she’d had a strong education background, whether that would have made a difference, who knows? Unfortunately there have been a lot of fingers in this awful algorithm pie”

- Robert Halfon, Tory chairman of the Commons education committee, on Sally Collier’s resignation as Ofqual chief regulator.

“My family and I have not been able to grieve this year without justice and closure. It is doing us real harm and I can’t believe how cruel the US government are being... They should be in no doubt – my family and I are going nowhere until we fulfil that promise to Harry”

- Charlotte Charles, mother of Harry Dunn, reacts after the Lord Chancellor, Robert Buckland QC, said in a letter that the Attorney General was considering the possibility of trying Harry’s alleged killer virtually or in her absence.