THEY SAID WHAT?

“We must harness the ingenuity and resolve that has been revealed in the struggle against Covid-19 and use it to create a stronger, healthier and more prosperous nation” - Boris Johnson speaks to Parliament following the Queen’s Speech.

“This Queen’s Speech merely papers over the cracks, it’s packed with short-term gimmicks and distant promises. This Government’s never short of those, but it misses the urgency and the scale of the transformation that’s needed in our economy, in our public services and our society, and it lacks the ambition or a plan to achieve it”

- Sir Keir Starmer takes aim at the Government’s plans announced at the State opening of

Parliament.

“I am desperately saddened that more than 1,000 very hardworking people have lost their jobs at Greensill. Likewise I take full responsibility for any hardship being felt by our clients and their suppliers, and indeed investors in our programmes”

- Lex Greensill, above, speaking

to the Commons Treasury Committee on the collapse of the

firm.

“The Ballymurphy families have had to battle too hard and too long to finally hear that truth at today’s inquest ruling into their loved ones’ deaths. They have carried themselves with courage and fortitude throughout the last 50 years. This is vindication of their fight”

- Alliance leader and Northern Ireland Justice Minister Naomi Long on the verdicts in the

Ballymurphy inquests.