Who said it?

“I have been repeatedly assured since these allegations emerged that there was no party and that no Covid rules were broken” Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

“To all of you who lost loved ones, who endured intolerable loneliness and who struggled with your businesses, I am truly sorry” - Prime minister’s spokeswoman Allegra Stratton hands in her resignation after being seen laughing in the video of a mock press conference.

“It does look very bad and gives the impression there is one rule for them and another for the rest of us” - Tory MP Peter Aldous on leaked footage of senior No 10 aides laughing about an alleged Christmas party.

“Numerous people around the country couldn’t spend those precious last few days, hours, minutes with loved ones. It was heartbreaking. In 14 years in the NHS I’ve never seen anything like it. And this latest revelation is just a bullet to the chest. It just demonstrates the lack of regard for the rest of us” - Dr Saleyha Ahsan, from the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice. “I think now that, going forward, any measures will be advisory. I think it would be very difficult to enshrine them in law and then once again ask our poor police forces to enforce them. The events of the last 24 hours make it probably almost impossible now” - Sir Charles Walker, Conservative MP for Broxbourne in Hertfordshire. “There needs to be something like a Brookside or a Grange Hill. It’s almost as though contemporary drama has been no-platformed in television” - The creator of Brookside and Grange Hill Sir Phil Redmond.