Who said it

“I think he deserves a stone in Westminster Abbey because I think he embodies this whole terrible pandemic which we are all living through. So many have lost their grandmas and their grandads, their fathers and their mothers, their sisters, their brothers, and I think he embodies that and we loved him. I think we have genuinely fallen in love with Captain Tom” - Carol Vorderman, on how Captain Sir Tom Moore should be remembered following his death at the age of 100.

“His dignity and determination in raising money to support the NHS charities caught the nation’s mood at the most difficult time. He exemplified the best of our values” - Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle pays tribute to Sir Tom as the House of Commons observes a minute’s silence in memory of the veteran and others who have lost their lives as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

“When things go wrong, as they do in life, we can’t put cotton wool around people, we can’t prevent bad things happening in the world , but if we can give people that toolkit so that when things go wrong they know how to look after themselves, they know who to go to” - Love Island’s Dr Alex George speaks of his new role as youth mental health adviser. “I’m optimistic that we will have a great British summer. The challenge we all still have is we have to keep control of the virus, so we have got to monitor progress. But the vaccine rollout is going well, the vaccines clearly work and so this is really, really good progress” - Health Secretary Matt Hancock praises the rollout of the vaccine programme.