THEY SAID WHAT?

“A free market economy, operating under the right rules and regulations, is the greatest agent of collective human progress ever created. It was the new combination which led societies out of darkness and stagnation and into the light of the modern age”

Prime Minister Theresa May “A poem gives people the freedom to play with words, to rub off the dull tarnish until they’re fresh as new pennies” Susannah Herbert, of National

Poetry Day “I’d like to encourage all women and girls to stop being people pleasers and perfectionists - and ... stop being so damn nice” US TV commentator and author and sexual harassment whistleblower Gretchen Carlson “I asked the dentist not to give me anaesthetic, I didn’t want to be dribbling gin” Dragons Den businesswoman Sarah Willingham, above, arriving at a party after dental treatment “Attacks on the media are no longer a lazy clap line delivered to a party conference to raise morale. They are part of a guerrilla war being fought on social media day after day and hour after hour”

Broadcaster Nick Robinson “I don’t really like violence. I am not the kind of person who wants to go and see people get shot up for fun, but it has its place in the arts”

Actress Uma Thurman “I am a radical moderate. I want to get out there and do radical things, but with a moderate message” Comedian Eddie Izzard who wants to be a Labour MP