THEY SAID WHAT?

“I think my responsibility to the film, and any human that you’re playing, is to show the light and dark, and we all have both”

– Actor Rufus Sewell, above, on portraying the Duke of York in the Netflix drama Scoop about his Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis.

“I actually don’t have a problem with the TfL regulations, they make sense to me. But the new posters promote something way more harmful – the idea that cucumbers pair well with ketchup and mustard”

– Comedian Ed Gamble who has been forced to remove a picture of a hot dog from posters promoting his stand-up tour on the Tube network after it breached Transport for London’s advertising policy.

“Had this been entirely a business meeting, it would have been clearly in accordance with all restrictions and would have been reputationally unobjectionable. Had it been entirely social, it would have been clearly in disregard of the restrictions at the time. On the basis of the evidence, I am satisfied on the balance of probabilities that the event included both business and social elements”

– Parliamentary Standards Commissioner Daniel Greenberg clears four Conservative MPs accused of attending a birthday drinks event in breach of lockdown rules.

“I was really glad she accepted my gift. We all need to learn from each other’s faith and those holy books are the main platform for that so I’m really glad I could do that on behalf of the interfaith forum and the Shrewsbury Muslim Centre”

– John Mustafa, of the Shrewsbury Interfaith Forum after he gave the Queen an English copy of the Koran during her visit to the town.