THEY SAID WHAT?

“The credit card bill from hell” - Dr Mark Holland, president of the Society for Acute Medicine (SAM), warns of the crisis facing the NHS in England at the end of January to meet the cost of the backlog of elderly patients occupying beds over Christmas.

“I think we’re all a bunch of ostriches, and what we’re doing is handing it to the next generation to sort out” - Adventurer Sir David Hempleman-Adams warns politicians to “grasp the nettle” on climate change.

“I am officially on the market” - Sherlock star Amanda Abbington, below, after her split from partner Martin Freeman.

“If the Prime Minister cannot even deliver on the words she gave when she campaigned for remain, why should we believe her now? In all of this she has Labour holding her hand, marching towards a disastrous Brexit” - Tim Farron, Liberal Democrat

leader.

“You knew you were at a cheesy party if Donald Trump was there” - Actor Ben Affleck reflects on the US president-elect.

“David Walliams played me like he plays a lot of people - as a camp idiot. Or maybe that’s what I am” - Actor Martin Freeman on Walliams’s portrayal of him in a sketch.

“Be yourself - that’s the worst advice you could give an impressionist”

- Rory Bremner.

“What has it got to do with the so-called Single Market whether I tootle around my garden on an under-sized quad bike? Absolutely nothing” - Boris Johnson, Foreign Secretary.