Who said it?

“We are able now to draw a line under the issues that our opponents want to talk about and we are able to get on talking about the issues, the issues that I think the people want, and what we are doing to help them and to take the country forward. That is what we are going to do. We are going to focus exclusively on that” - Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaking to his Cabinet the morning after surviving a confidence vote.

“It was really important at all stages that everyone stuck to the rules. It works when people stuck to them. It is disappointing that that wasn’t the case” - Sir Patrick Vallance, the government’s chief scientific adviser, on partygate.

“It is not Conservative to be raising taxes, and it is undermining growth and prosperity. We need to improve productivity and investment, and not weaken it”

- Former Brexit minister Lord Frost calls for rises to national insurance and corporation tax to be reversed.

“Making things is absolutely a core human instinct. It takes you back to being a fully rounded, fully present human being. It may not necessarily be easy but that is not the point. It is a good thing to do”

- Artist and writer Edmund de Waal, a potter for more than 50 years, speaks after being made a CBE for services to the arts.

“Lots of us who are LGBT are in the Church but the Church at the moment resists giving us equal status. It requires a lot of people to come a long way. But we should not shirk a difficult task if what’s at stake is justice and human dignity” - Rev Richard Coles on his frustration over the status of the LGBT community in the Church of England.