The Courier & Advertiser (Angus and Dundee)

Who said it?

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“It may be that he (Putin) just switches off his tanks and we all go home, but there is a whiff of Munich in the air from some in the West” - Defence Secretary Ben Wallace in a reference to the agreement that allowed German annexation of the Sudetenlan­d in 1938 and failed to stop the Second World War. “It’s not the best time for us to offend our partners in the world, reminding them of this act which actually did not buy peace but the opposite, it bought war”

- Ukraine’s UK ambassador, Vadym Prystaiko, responds.

“In the dealings I’ve had with the prime minister, he’s absolutely focused on the job in hand, about what he’s doing for the British people” - Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis. “Crime is going up, prosecutio­ns are going down, confidence is falling. There’s a legacy of damaging cuts, and also these individual toxic cases around the culture. There needs to be a proper serious programme of reform for policing” - Labour’s shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper.

“Whoever the incoming commission­er is, they will have a very full inbox. They will have precisely the same problems that Cressida was contending with” - Former HM Inspector of Constabula­ry Zoe Billingham following the resignatio­n of Metropolit­an Police commission­er Dame Cressida Dick.

“I think a new path is emerging, a new way to be in love” - Kate Garraway on her relationsh­ip with husband Derek Draper, whose organs were damaged after he became seriously ill with Covid-19 in 2020 and who now requires care at home.

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