Who said it?

“He was the original Essex cheeky chappy. David Amess had more front than Brighton. He put Basildon firmly on the map and worked tirelessly for Southend. In the end, I think his constituents loved him for it” - MP Mark Francois delivers a eulogy during the funeral service for Sir David Amess in Southend. “If you live in a £1 million house, perhaps in the Home Counties, 90% of your assets will be protected if you need social care. But if you live in an £80,000 terrace house in Hartlepool, Barrow, Mansfield or Wigan, for example, you lose nearly everything. That is not fair, that is not levelling up, it is daylight robbery” - Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth on the government’s plans for reform of social care funding, which mean no one in England will pay more than £86,000

regardless of their means.

“I found it really entertaining. It was enlightening. When you’re out there and you’re judging, you’re concentrating and your efforts are only on the judging, unless it’s an amazing performance and you get carried away and start bringing the 10s out”

- Strictly Come Dancing’s Craig Revel Horwood reflects on missing his first show in 18 years and watching it at home.

“Now, just as in Mrs Thatcher’s time, there are the naysayers and the doom-mongers who claim that we are Little Britain. Too slow, too weak, too inexperienced. But, and with the greatest respect to Matt Lucas, we are not Little Britain and we never were. We are global Britain” - International Trade Secretary Anne-marie Trevelyan speaking at the Margaret Thatcher Conference on Trade.