Western Morning News (Saturday)
The things they say
■ “It’s time to eat out to help out, to enjoy the arts to help out and to work out to help out. It’s over to all of you to help the country recover safely,”
– Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden announces gyms, swimming pools and outdoor theatres will soon reopen.
■ “If we want to try then to bring the deficit back to where it would have been absent the crisis, we will need to do some spending cuts, or given a decade of austerity, perhaps more likely some tax rises,”
– Institute for Fiscal Studies deputy director Carl Emmerson suggests taxes will increase to help repair the economy following Covid-19.
■ “I want everyone to feel the same burning pride for our colleges and the people who study there, in the way we do for our great universities and schools,”
– Education Secretary Gavin Williamson pledges to revamp the country’s further education system.
■ “I’m keen to try and get our message across to as many people as possible and engage them, and if that means they poke some fun at me in the process so be it if it means they’re talking about what we’re doing and debating it,”
– Chancellor Rishi Sunak defends his “Brand Rishi” social media posts.
■ “I let the abandoned and ambitious adolescent have her say, and the betrayed and triumphant woman I became tell her side,”
– Singer Mariah Carey on her upcoming memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey.
■ “There are only so many old episodes of Dad’s Army and Bread one can possibly watch,”
– Senior Conservative Julian Knight, who chairs the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, calls for the UK’s film and television industry to be reopened.