THEY SAID WHAT?

“Despite what the British press says, this is a process that is moving ahead step by step” German Chancellor Angela Merkel

“We have become a safe haven for dirty money. We are allowing money-laundering and tax avoidance to take place on an industrial scale. But Britain will never get rich on dirty money. Allowing it to roam freely will simply infect our institutions, our people and our economy. And it is plain wrong that we have allowed ourselves to become the leading facilitator of money-laundering, organised crime and tax evasion”

– Labour MP Dame Margaret Hodge on the effects of Brexit.

“We are at a watershed moment. This is a sea change. I think his last name will become a noun and a verb. It will become an identifying moniker for a state of being for which there is a before and an after” – actor Tom Hanks, pictured, says director Harvey Weinstein will never recover his prime position in the film industry

“Bigotry seems emboldened. Our politics seems more vulnerable to conspiracy theories and outright fabrication. We need to recall and recover our own identity” – Former US president George W Bush on Trump-era US politics. “I do a one man show so me not having my arms is half of the show” – singer Ed Sheeran, who has had to postpone shows after breaking both arms in a cycling accident, making it impossible for him to play the guitar

“I feel more relaxed, I just feel I’ve sat into my own skin. I feel so good”

– singer Cheryl on motherhood

“Fashion is about eventually becoming naked” – designer Dame Vivienne Westwood