The Courier & Advertiser (Perth and Perthshire Edition)

Who said it?

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“When a country faces an inflationa­ry problem you can’t just pay more and spend more, you have to find ways of tackling the underlying causes of inflation. If wages continue to chase the increase in prices, then we risk a wage-price spiral such as this country experience­d in the 1970s”

- Boris Johnson warns of a “wage-price spiral”.

“If we do nothing different, smoking will cause over half a million more deaths by 2030... To truly achieve a smoke-free society, we need to make smoking obsolete, once and for all”

- Dr Javed Khan, who led a study into how England can become smoke-free.

“With good faith, statecraft and trust around the negotiatin­g table, which is what a Labour government would bring, these problems can be overcome. But a prime minister without those attributes taking a wrecking ball to the relationsh­ip is not going to help anybody” - Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer on Boris Johnson’s controvers­ial plan to unilateral­ly scrap aspects of the Northern Ireland Protocol. “Louis was wanting to have fun, and my two are mischievou­s, so it was (about) trying to keep a lid on. There were a lot of sweets out back there, so they had complete sugar highs”

- Mike Tindall, who is married to the Queen’s granddaugh­ter Zara Tindall, on Prince Louis’s antics at the Platinum Jubilee.

“I’m taking life day-by-day, and feel blessed to have another day knowing that my time is limited... Continuing with the campaignin­g is keeping me going” - Dame Deborah James says raising funds is keeping her going as she receives end-of-life care at home for bowel cancer.

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