Who said it?

“I can assure you the prime minister is both very contrite and deeply apologetic for what happened. But, more importantly, he is determined to make sure that this can’t be allowed to happen and that we address the underlying culture in Downing Street”

- Conservative Party chairman Oliver Dowden on allegations of Covid rulebreaking.

“I was in a constituency office just days before the election. We were very busy. We were working in the office. We stopped for something to eat and then we carried on working. No party, no breach of the rules and absolutely no comparison with the prime minister” - Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer on a photo of him drinking with party staff in a constituency office last year. “This licence fee announcement will be the last. The days of the elderly being threatened with prison sentences and bailiffs knocking on doors are over. Time now to discuss and debate new ways of funding, supporting and selling great British content”

- Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries.

“I am launching a new global daily TV show for Rupert Murdoch’s news corporation in America, starting in the spring. It will air daily in the UK, daily in the US and in Australia daily as well so I will be a tri-continental irritant” Piers

Morgan.

“A teacher said ‘Why don’t you write down your thoughts?’ and so I had a go and I discovered my thoughts were quite loud”

- Booker Prize-nominated author Deborah Levy said she became quieter and then stopped speaking as a child because she did not believe her thoughts were valuable.