Who said it

“We have serially seen senior EU figures talk about Northern Ireland as if it was some kind of different country to the UK. It is not only offensive, it has realworld effects on the communities in Northern Ireland” - Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab.

“The best thing about football is that it brings people together” Mayor of London Sadiq Khan ahead of the England football team’s first Euro 2020 match.

“I think if we were to open up more that would really fan the flames and lead to this increasing even faster” - Professor Andrew Hayward, a member of the Nervtag group which gives advice to ministers, on the coronavirus Delta variant and easing lockdown restrictions.

“Tackling climate change is now as much a political and communications challenge as it is a scientific or technological one. We have the skills to address it in time. All we need is the global will to do so” - Sir David Attenborough to G7 leaders. “It’s the president of the United States of America. It’s a great occasion to welcome him into our parish, into the church, and it’s lovely to know he made the time to come to Mass” - Father Philip Dyson on a visit by US president Joe Biden to his church, the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in St Ives.

“I think this summit will also go down as an unforgivable moral failure, when the richest countries are sitting around the table with the power to do something about it. We have not delivered the comprehensive plan that will deliver vaccination by the middle of next year” - Former prime minister Gordon Brown on providing Covid-19 vaccines to other countries.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan.