Who said it

“No, but I think the important thing I think people want us to get on and do as a government is to make sure that the lockdowns work” - Prime Minister Boris Johnson when asked if he had said that he would rather “bodies pile high in their thousands” than order a third lockdown.

“Day after day there are new allegations of sleaze, of favours, of privileged access” - Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was time for “a full and transparent investigation into everything that’s going on” in No 10.

“There is simply no capacity for government to pause these efforts and divert resources to an intensive independent inquiry. The very people who would need to give evidence to an inquiry are working round the clock to respond to the pandemic and keep us all safe” - A letter from the government’s legal department to members of the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group.

“How long will grieving families be left without answers, without assurance that the mistakes that led to our loved ones’ deaths are not repeated?” - Jo Goodman, co-founder of the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group.

“Today the police will kill three people. And tomorrow the police will kill three people. And the day after that, the police will kill three people because on average the police in America every day kill three people. And those people happen to disproportionately be black people. I just ask that you not be indifferent. Please don’t be indifferent to our pain” - Best live-action short Oscar winner Travon Free.