THEY SAID WHAT?

“At the heart of this tragic case is the Prime Minister’s dismal failure to release my constituent and to stand up for her, and his devastating blunder in 2017 when he was foreign secretary – when he exposed his complete ignorance of this tragic case and put more harm in Nazanin’s way,”

- Labour’s Tulip Siddiq criticises

the Prime Minister over the Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case.

“Sixty thousand pounds is a lot of money to do up a flat, it appears that wasn’t enough and that’s why these questions are being raised in the first place,”

- Shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds calls for transparency about the funding of Boris Johnson’s Downing Street flat.

“At all times he has been focused on saving lives and livelihoods,”

- Mr Johnson’s official spokesman hits back at claims the Prime Minister told aides he would rather let coronavirus “rip” than impose a lockdown last year.

“I’ve never heard the term ‘Alan Shearer’ and ‘personality’ used in the same sentence. He did, of course, refuse to appear when asked before this committee so I think that said a lot in that respect,” - Chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee Julian Knight on former England footballer Alan Shearer not attending a parliamentary inquiry yesterday examining concussion in sport.

“I googled ‘Da Butt’ and watched Spike’s music video so when Lil Rel asked if I could do the dance... you can actually see me think of the video. That part was completely spontaneous. Daniel, Darrell and Chris egged me on! It was all their fault,”

- Actress Glenn Close, above, on

her viral dance at the Oscars.