The things they say
“This country faces a tipping point. If everybody follows the rules – and we will be increasingly stringent on the people who are not following the rules – then we can avoid further national lockdowns. But we of course have to be prepared to take action if that’s what’s necessary.”
– UK Government Health Secretary Matt Hancock. “We’re not seeing community transmission at this point, but are seeing large clusters and outbreaks of cases in some parts of Scotland. So we’re working this weekend with scientific and clinical advisers to understand what might be the additional measures that we can put in place.”
– Scottish Health Secretary
Jeane Freeman. “The only reliable solution is to cancel the 2021 exams now and grade pupils based on their work throughout the year, avoiding both the risk of exams taking place during a pandemic and the chaos of last month’s grading scandal.”
– Scottish Greens education spokesperson Ross Greer calls for next year’s schools exams
to be cancelled.
“So, recognising that, listening to those that no longer vote Labour, and I’ve spent the last six months listening and asking for conversations with people that are difficult rather than easy, and changing and focusing on the future.”
– Labour leader Sir Keir
Starmer. “With an incomparable and indelible legacy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg will forever be known as a woman of brilliance, a justice of courage, and a human of deep conviction. She has been a true inspiration to me since I was a girl. Honour her, remember her, act for her.”
– the Duchess of Sussex pays
tribute to the US Supreme Court judge who has died aged
87. “I was very much part of this counter-cultural, black feminist, say, or black womanist community, where we were just nurturing each other, as well as fighting each other and falling out, of course.” –
Booker Prize-winning author
Bernardine Evaristo speaks about the 10 years when she
lived as a lesbian.