QUOTES OF THE DAY

“After all the extraordinary actions that have been taken to protect lives and livelihoods over the last 18 months, this is the right, the reasonable and the fair approach”

Boris Johnson defends a 1.25 percentage point increase in National Insurance contributions to pay for social care reform

“Their vets chose to treat him in an unnecessarily brutal way by not using an alpaca head collar, as the world saw. They dragged and suffocated him before tying him up using a short rope in the horse box, leaving him alone and terrified”

Helen Macdonald criticises the way her alpaca Geronimo was put down by the Animal and Plant Health Agency after twice testing positive for bovine TB

“While we’ve come a long way in the last 20 months, placing the issue of child food poverty at the forefront, devastatingly, the issue is getting worse not better”

Footballer Marcus Rashford