THEY SAID WHAT?

“When I’m on tour I don’t speak between the shows so I come off stage and I’ll go for at least 24 hours of absolute silence. Not a word. It actually works. If you ever lose your voice, the voice is a muscle so it has to have complete rest”

- Opera singer Katherine Jenkins,

below.

“Oh, my goodness! We’ve got some veggies!”

- The Duchess of Sussex on being given a bunch of carrots as a gift in Sydney.

“I have a huge announcement to make. My announcement is that I have an announcement”

- Britney Spears keeps her fans guessing.

“We are in a negotiation but at the moment it begins to look more like a capitulation than a negotiation. We have got to get some steel in our backbone and do something about actually negotiating, rather than saying ‘what would you like?”’

- Former Tory Cabinet minister

Iain Duncan Smith on Brexit.

“If Tory internecine rows over Brexit let in Jeremy Corbyn, I don’t think we’d be forgiven for a generation, and we wouldn’t deserve to be”

- Conservative MP Johnny Mercer.

“I went out like an ironing board”

- TV news reader Kate Silverton was unhappy about her samba on Strictly Come Dancing.

“Are you having a hot flush, dear?”

- Tory MP Rachel Maclean complains about what an unnamed male party colleague asked her in the Commons division lobbies.

“I’d rather be a poor master of my fate than having someone I don’t know making me rich by running it” - Actor Sir Michael Caine, a Brexiteer, prefers to be outside the EU rather than in it.