THEY SAID WHAT?

“And for me personally I hope it means he stays out of my fridge. It will stop him scrounging off all my food he’s done over the last few years”

- the Duke of Cambridge jokes about Prince Harry and Ms Meghan Markle’s engagement.

“We need a Brexit that puts working people first, but ministers are playing Russian roulette with people’s jobs, rights and livelihoods”

- Frances O’Grady, TUC general

secretary.

“The values of compassion and solidarity are central to the story of St Andrew. They are also a big part of Scotland’s national identity. So we’re encouraging everyone to celebrate these values by performing an act of kindness on St Andrew’s Day”

- Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s First Minister.

“I want us all to act now and break down the barriers people with all disabilities face in their everyday lives, so they are not short-changed on opportunities to use their entrepreneurial spirit to help their countries prosper”

- Penny Mordaunt, above, International Development Secretary.

“It’s always a privilege to find people reading you at all. To be given a prize is to have cream as well as apple pie” - author Philip Pullman whose novel La Belle Sauvage has been named Waterstone’s book of the year.

“Have there been any discussions yet in this divorce, as it is called, not only about the alimony but about the fate of the matrimonial home? All those buildings in Brussels to which we have contributed. Are we going to get our money back?”

- Tory peer Lord Tebbit on Brexit.