QUOTES OF THE DAY

“I’ve got all the authority I need to make the relevant decisions whether it’s through chairing Cabinet updates, chairing Cobra, or indeed the morning meetings of senior ministers”

- Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who is deputising for Prime Minister Boris Johnson while he is in hospital

“To you and everyone who is in during this time, it must be such a relief for all the parents who are key workers to know that their children have the normality and structure and they’ve got a safe place for them to be. So really, really well done and for all of you, I know it’s not easy circumstances, but it’s fantastic”

- the Duchess of Cambridge, above, during a virtual visit to a Burnley primary school to learn how it is coping during the coronavirus outbreak

“Don’t be the person that thinks ‘I’ll pop to the Dales because it’ll be quiet’. Don’t be the person that thinks, ‘it’s Easter, we can stay at the holiday house’. It’s unacceptable”

- David Butterworth, chief executive of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority, on the selfish minority breaking lockdown rules and heading for tourist hotspots

“Northamptonshire Police will not set up road blocks. Officers and staff from Northamptonshire Police will not carry out basket or trolley searches attempting to ascertain the relevance of the items purchased. The confusion in the clip this morning, what I was trying to refer to, was we may get to a stage where the purpose of somebody’s journey may be questioned by an officer - not searching trolleys and baskets”

- Northamptonshire Police Chief Constable Nick Adderley after making controversial remarks that he admitted may have been