THEY SAID WHAT?

“In Russia it is still an old-fashioned and old-style KGB system ... It’s still all the same. If there is an order to kill somebody it will happen”

– Marina Litvinenko, whose Russian dissident husband Alexander was poisoned in Britain 12 years ago, compares his case with Sergei Skripal, a former Russian spy, now fighting for his life in a West Country hospital.

“I’ve rarely been as angry as I was when I saw those extreme Brexiteers who tried to ridicule the Good Friday Agreement as if it didn’t matter. I say that as somebody who was in the Brighton bombing, whose wife was in the Brighton bomb, who had to help pick the things up afterward”

– Tory peer Lord Deben, formerly John Gummer, an ex-Cabinet Minister.

“I won’t watch old episodes of Poirot now. It’s an awful thing to admit but my guilty pleasure is flicking through the channels - it’s something I couldn’t do as a youngster when we only had one or two channels - but if I do come across a Poirot I pass on swiftly”

– Poirot star David Suchet, above.

“The whole racket on our railways was rigged from the off by the Tories so that the profits are privatised and the risks are carried by the public. It’s a scandal that has led to a bail-out culture on our railways which is being exploited by the train operators while passengers are freezing in luggage racks on broken-down trains”

– RMT general secretary Mick Cash.

“Clip him round the earhole”

– Labour MP Wes Streeting’s advice to Prime Minister Theresa May on how to deal with Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson over the Irish border row.