THEY SAID WHAT?

“This is a problem and I think it could get worse. It is disruptive to the business. We had to close, in the last seven days, 33 pubs due to lack of staff because of self-isolation”

- Nick Mackenzie, chief executive of Greene King, on closures due to staff being told to isolate by the NHS Covid app.

“The cyber attack on Microsoft Exchange Server by Chinese state-backed groups was a reckless but familiar pattern of behaviour. The Chinese government must end this systematic cyber sabotage and can expect to be held to account if it does not”

- Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, below, on a hacking attack in early 2021 which affected more than a quarter of a million servers worldwide.

“There are hundreds of thousands of people who have been forced to miss family events, close businesses and go without pay because they have done the right thing, and yet ministers have played the system. Children sent home from school after positive cases in their bubble, NHS staff working overtime to cover staff absences, and businesses struggling to run a normal level of service due to their employees self-isolating. These people deserve an immediate answer from ministers about the Cabinet’s participation in this scheme”

- Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer calls on the Government to reveal who has taken part in a daily workplace testing trial, rather than self-isolating, after coming into contact with someone who tests positive for coronavirus..