THEY SAID WHAT?

“There is no single magic bullet and it’s certainly not just about pouring money in, because if you pour money in without fixing the other elements of supply, you will simply create more house price inflation, that makes the problem worse, not better.”

– Chancellor Philip Hammond promising incentives to housebuilding in his Budget next week

“He makes her laugh because some of the things he says and does and the way he looks at life is obviously slightly different than her, so together they’re a great couple.” – The Duke of Cambridge on the 70th anniversary of the marriage of The Queen and Prince Philip

“I’m selfish, impatient, intolerant and can be a bit of a bully when I feel people aren’t doing what I want, when I want, how I want.”

– TV gardener Monty Don

“I drove a car the other day which has a claim of autonomous capability and twice in the space of 50 miles on the M4 it made a mistake, a huge mistake, which could have resulted in death.” – Jeremy Clarkson’s warning on driverless cars.

“Never stop asking questions. Complacency is the death of society.” – Designer Terence Conran

“I think they’re disintegrating, on a slow retreat to oblivion, but I never underestimate them and their ability to cling on.” – Shadow chancellor John McDonnell on the Tories

“I attribute my long life and good health to no exercise of any kind.” – Barry Humphries, 83, creator of Dame Edna Everage