QUOTES OF THE DAY

“This is not about me, or Meghan Markle. It’s about free speech and the right to have an opinion. We now live in a wokeravaged era where it’s become a punishable offence to say what you really think about almost anything for fear that someone, somewhere, will be offended.” Piers Morgan reacts to a ruling by TV regulator Ofcom that his comments on Good Morning Britain about the Duchess of Sussex were not in breach of the broadcasting code

“No, I considered getting on with the job of what has been a Herculean task of getting 17,000 people out.”

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab says he did not consider resigning over the Afghanistan crisis during a grilling by the Foreign Affairs Committee “The most impact from the vaccine is with the first dose. We get really high protection with the first dose, then it improves with the second. So if you want to think about getting the most protection across the world, vaccinate everybody once, rather than some people three times.”

Dame Sarah Gilbert, professor of

vaccinology at the University of Oxford’s Jenner Institute, on the

issue of booster jabs for Covid