Words of the week

HE’D got petrol in his veins. – Ex Formula One world champion Damon Hill’s tribute to legendary commentator Murray Walker.

EVEN without watching the TV, when you are out of the room, you hear him, you are excited and it makes you want to run back in and see what is happening. – Lewis Hamilton’s tribute to Murray Walker.

YES, technically, we were all in it together. And yet it quickly became clear that some parts of our communities were suffering much, much more intensively than others. – Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis on the lockdown.

THE creative industries aren’t some kind of add-on and “nice to have”. They are important to our sense of wellbeing and our national life. – Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden.

IT’S a shame my first festival winner comes under these circumstances but it truly doesn’t matter. It’s a very memorable day. – Jockey Ryan Mania after his win on Vintage Clouds at Cheltenham for Sue and Harvey

Smith.

THEY regard, quite clearly, the streets as lawless for women when it comes to male behaviour. – Dame Vera Baird, the Victims’ Commissioner, on the Reclaim The Streets movement.

I WOULD urge the Government to consider carefully the need to walk a fine line between being popular and populist. Our freedoms depend on it. – Theresa May on the Crime Bill.

I’LL stick my neck out. I believe the UK will be the largest economy in Europe by 2050. – Transport Secretary Grant Shapps.

I WANT to see childhood right at the top of the Government agenda. That means every speech from the Prime Minister and Chancellor mentioning children. – Dame Rachel de Souza, the new Children’s Commissioner.

INFLATION is below one per cent and therefore a proposed one per cent pay rise is indeed a pay rise. – Health Secretary Matt Hancock on the NHS pay row.

ANYONE saying I have it all doesn’t see lots of things that go on in the background. – Olympic winning cyclist Laura Kenny on combining her track career with being a mother.