QUOTES OF THE DAY

“The reason I have accepted that is because I do think it needs to be balanced against the very challenging times we face, the damage caused by instability and the uncertainty of changing leader at this time”

- Tory Party chairman Oliver Dowden says he has accepted Boris Johnson’s apology over his Partygate fine. “When you know who you are, you are ready and you want to tell the world, there are people like myself who are waiting and we’re welcoming, we’re friendly and we’re here to help and support”

- Jamie Wallis, above, the first openly transgender MP, offers advice to young people who are struggling with their gender identity.

“If he was still the US president, given his particular way of dealing with dictators like Kim Jong-un of North Korea, and with traditional American enemies like Vladimir Putin, would Putin have actually gone into Ukraine? He says not and he has a real problem with how America in particular is dealing with the Ukraine invasion”

- Piers Morgan says former US President Donald Trump would have handled Russia’s invasion into

Ukraine “differently”.

“I hope it hasn’t changed me but I feel perhaps more numb or raw... At first there was fear but it’s strange how you can get used to war, you can get used to everything”

- Ukrainian tennis player turned resistance fighter Sergiy Stakhovsky

on life in his war-torn country.

“I have this feeling of embracing everything now, grabbing everything that life has to offer with open arms”

- Broadcaster Julia Bradbury speaks

about her breast cancer diagnosis.