QUOTES OF THE DAY

“Falling consumer spending has caused the economy to shrink in the third quarter of 2022. This has set Britain on course for the quickest return to recession in nearly half a century”

– Resolution Foundation research director James Smith, after the UK may have entered what experts say could be the longest recession in a century.

“I am under no illusion that there is a tough road ahead – one which will require extremely difficult decisions to restore confidence and economic stability”

– Chancellor Jeremy Hunt responds. “For those many people that are being fed the fake narrative from the corrupt media that I am angry about the midterms, don’t believe it. I am not at all angry, did a great job (I wasn’t the one running), and am very busy looking into the future. Remember, I am a ‘Stable Genius”’

– Former US president Donald Trump, above, posts on his social

media network.

“Climate change is a great risk facing us all and we urge everybody to do whatever they can to make a difference to that”

– Environment Agency chair Alan

Lovell.

“I was struck by the Prime Minister’s pragmatic approach, understanding where the European Union are coming from, but also he then seeking, obviously, that the EU understands where the United Kingdom is coming from”

– Taoiseach Micheal Martin praises Rishi Sunak’s approach to resolving the stand-off over Brexit’s Northern

Ireland Protocol.