The things they say
“All too often, important statutory instruments have been published a matter of hours before they come into force and some explanations as to why important measures have come into effect before they can be laid before this House has been unconvincing and shows a total disregard for the House”
– Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle accuses Boris
Johnson of treating Parliament with contempt for rushing in new coronavirus laws. “One of the major problems, as we’ve seen in the last 24 hours, is widespread confusion about the local restrictions and I don’t just mean the Prime Minister not knowing his own rules – having sat opposite the Prime Minister at PMQs every week that didn’t come as a surprise to me”
– Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer says the Prime
Minister’s Covid-19 confusion came as no
surprise. “There are always going to be nay-sayers, but at the end of the day I used to have a quote up in my room many many moons ago, and it resonates now perhaps more than ever when you see all the vitriol and noise that can be out in the world. It’s by Georgia O’Keeffe – ‘I’ve already settled it for myself, so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.”’
– The Duchess of Sussex takes aim at her critics while speaking at the Fortune Most Powerful Women virtual summit. “There’s nothing smart about you. Forty-seven years you’ve done nothing” – US President Donald Trump to his Democratic challenger Joe Biden during the first 2020 presidential debate. “Will you shut up, man?” – Joe Biden with a retort of his own to Mr Trump during the presidential debate.
“I’ve waited all my adult life to have Spitting Image do a puppet of me. Last night I got sent the image and I was like, ‘You know what, I could have waited another 40 years for this!”
– Piers Morgan says his Spitting Image puppet looks nothing like him.