THEY SAID WHAT?

“We’ve updated the guidance online to make it clearer that these are not local restrictions and we do acknowledge the confusion this caused yesterday”

- The PM’s official spokesman admits that communications on local guidance for coronavirus hotspots was unclear.

“France is going to take similar measures and so put in place obligatory isolation for people who come from the United Kingdom”

- French government spokesman Gabriel Attal says it will follow Germany and impose a mandatory quarantine on visitors from the UK to prevent the spread of the Indian variant of coronavirus. “We can all think of things we have had to do and don’t want to do again. I think we are all craving human contact. I personally never want to do a Zoom call ever again”

- The Duchess of Cornwall, above,

has had enough of video calls.

“As we embark on this process, we are setting no limits on our ambition. So in that vein let me be clear that while this is not a guaranteed or a pre-agreed outcome, it is not inconceivable that a co-operation agreement could lead in future to a Green minister or ministers being part of this Government”

- Scotland’s First Minister Nicola

Sturgeon reveals her SNP Government is talking with the Scottish Greens about a formal

co-operation agreement.

“If he is referring to a Conservative member who has recently had the whip taken away, he can take it that that member has already had condign punishment”

- Boris Johnson insists MP Rob Roberts received an appropriate punishment for breaching sexual misconduct rules.