THEY SAID WHAT?

“The hotel is like a ghost house and my fear is that by trapping us inside it, we stand more chance of catching the coronavirus. This whole thing is very worrying”

- British holidaymaker David Hoon, who is staying at a Tenerife hotel where an Italian doctor was diagnosed with coronavirus.

“Joaquin Phoenix, he’s had a really challenging life and you really feel for him and a lot of the things he was saying, but he’s got to remember there are people at the end of this, there are small family farms and they get hurt too. It’s about instilling this philosophy of being kind”

- National Farmers’ Union president Minette Batters, below, urges celebrity activists to be careful of the consequences of their calls for people to ditch eating meat.

“Ian Murray understands that if Labour is to have any hope, it’s got to be able to win in every part and every corner of the United Kingdom. Ian Murray gets it, and that’s why it’s important to support him”

- Former prime minister Tony Blair backs Labour’s only Scottish MP in the contest to be deputy leader of the party.

“There will no doubt continue to be significant threats and challenges ahead. But on each of my visits to MI5 I have been impressed by the way that you have adapted to the changing threats to our nation”

- The Queen makes her first public visit to the intelligence

agency’s London HQ.

“It is clear to see that Westminster institutions have repeatedly failed to deal with allegations of child sexual abuse, from turning a blind eye to actively shielding abusers”

- Professor Alexis Jay, who chairs the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), as it reported on MPs, peers and civil servants working in Westminster.