Who said it

“I think we are going to now move into a period where there won’t be legal restrictions, the state won’t be telling you what to do, but you will want to exercise a degree of personal responsibility and judgment – different people will come to different conclusions on things like masks, for example” - Cabinet minister Robert Jenrick.

“I think we learned, as paediatricians, we learned that we can avoid massive problems with children getting sick in the winter by doing these kind of measures. We simply didn’t see the epidemics of respiratory viruses last winter that we’ve seen every year throughout my career” - Professor Adam Finn, from the government’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, says he will continue to wear a face mask in some circumstances. “It wouldn’t be me as chancellor leaning on public bodies to award contracts, what it is about is changing the procurement framework so you can take into account labour standards, job creation in this country and environmental standards as well” - Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves who has unveiled Labour’s plan to ask every public body to give more contracts to British firms. “We need to move our society beyond an examination of the past, to the kind of reconciliation and healing that we desire to see in Northern Ireland” - DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson.

“No one should go to work fearing for their safety, yet many retail workers have come to see it as part of the job – this can’t go on” - Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium.