THEY SAID WHAT?

“Calling anybody a dog is absolutely outrageous in the extreme, and Chuka Umunna of all people should know that”

- Labour Party chairman Ian Lavery rebukes MP Umunna who urged Jeremy Corbyn to “call off the dogs” after alleging intimidation within the party.

“It seems very odd to be proposing tax hikes when we are about to hand over £39 billion to the EU for nothing in return, and when a pro-enterprise tax-cutting approach to government would actually deliver the revenues to pay for the NHS and so many other civilised priorities”

- Boris Johnson.

“The more I got prodded by plastic surgeons the more protective I got of myself. I was like, ‘Get away from me, I’m fine thank you very much”’

- TV presenter Cherry Healey, above, rejecting cosmetic surgery on herself after making a documentary on the subject.

“The Tory party would suffer the catastrophic split which thus far we have managed to avoid”

- Tory MP and former Brexit Minister Steve Baker warning what could happen if the Prime Minister tried to get her Chequers proposals through on the back of Labour votes.

“Being a parent is the hardest job in the world but the most rewarding. My children are the greatest loves of my life. Love is thicker than blood; it’s the love that lasts eternally”

- Great British Bake-Off star Prue Leith urging people to consider

adoption.

“Alcohol is the one drug you have to apologise for not taking. If you go teetotal and everybody knows it, you are in effect issuing a blanket apology for not drinking”

- TV’s Adrian Chiles.

“Nice? I’m as grumpy as the next man” - TV’s Michael Palin.