QUOTES OF THE DAY

“They are going to be very difficult decisions, but we are a resilient country and we’ve faced much bigger challenges, frankly, in our history. We know that to deal with problems you have to face into them, not run away from them”

- Chancellor Jeremy Hunt ahead of

this week’s autumn budget. “Just because you have to make difficult decisions doesn’t mean you have to make the same decisions. The decisions and the choices that Labour would be making would make our tax system fairer and would grow the economy so that we’ve got the money for those essential public services”

- shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves,

above.

“First of all, I don’t think we should be grateful when the thief gives back stolen goods and that’s effectively what Russia has done. Now it’s going to sort of go around the world trying to say everyone should be grateful for that. No, they shouldn’t, Russia shouldn’t have done it in the first place in February”

- Defence Secretary Ben Wallace.

“We’re seeing a continued failure by Russia. We saw that at the outset. Russia wanted to take the cities, it failed. Russia wanted to subjugate Ukraine, it’s failed, and it’s failing dramatically. Russia wanted to weaken Nato and Nato’s even stronger. Then if you come down to the tactical fight, we’re seeing continued success by Ukraine”

- Chief of the Defence Staff Admiral

Sir Tony Radakin.