THEY SAID WHAT?

“While I can understand the considerable distress caused to you by some of the allegations which have been made in recent weeks, I know that you share my commitment to maintaining the high standards which the public demands of ministers of the Crown” - The Prime Minister in her letter to Damian Green on his resignation from the Cabinet.

“From the outset I have been clear that I did not download or view pornography on my parliamentary computers.” - Damian Green in his letter to the

Prime Minister.

“To lose her number two in Government in such a way, and so soon after two other ministers, leaves the Prime Minister further weakened”

- A Labour Party spokesman.

“I’ve even turned my six acre garden into a secret woodland, and I see my trees as my extended family. My life now is just trees. Trees and champagne”

- Dame Judi Dench, above.

“I hate turkey. I think it is bland, boring and overrated. It’s something you don’t eat all year round, so why eat it on Christmas day?”

- Top TV chef Gino D’Acampo.

“The European Union produces its laws in a form of gobbledygook”

- Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg.

“I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword” - Veteran actress Olivia de

Havilland, who is 101.