THEY SAID WHAT?

“It’s been insane. I feel like it’s something you dream about when you’re little and you question whether it can really come true. And this year it’s come true for me so I’m just really excited”

- London-born singer-songwriter Ella Mai on her success in the US.

“Chequers is a dying duck in a thunderstorm, if it is not quite a dead duck”

- Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg on Brexit.

“If there is no deal the Government would not pay the terms of the financial settlement. There’s no deal without the whole deal”

- Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab saying the UK would not pay the “divorce bill” if Brussels refused a deal. “It’s tough to be northern, working-class and talented”

- Liverpool-born singer Rebecca Ferguson, above.

“The reincarnation of ancient evil”

- The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby denounces the so-called gig economy.

“Keep smiling and doing stuff. Don’t sit down too much and always run up the stairs if you can”

- Actress Joanna Lumley on how to maintain good looks.

“The time for talking is past. When will we follow the lead provided by Italy this summer in banning all gambling advertisements on TV, on radio and online?”

- Conservative peeress Baroness

Bloomfield.

“It was like having a baby, I would almost rather have had a baby than do MasterChef. There were certainly labour pains! It was a good experience, but it was a nightmare” - Singer Stella Parton, sister of Dolly Parton, on appearing in Celebrity Masterchef.