THEY SAID WHAT?

“The current battle against the coronavirus at least demonstrates, if nothing else, how quickly the world can mobilise when we identify a common threat”

– The Prince of Wales urges a “war footing” for climate change as he references the coronavirus outbreak

“We were all given an instruction not to shake hands and there’s a good reason for not shaking hands, which is that the behavioural psychologists say that if you don’t shake somebody’s hand then that sends an important message to them about the importance of washing your hands”

- Boris Johnson explains why dignitaries at the Commonwealth Day Service were told not to

shake hands

“I had one - this was an audition for the BBC - I walked in and the guy said, ‘Those purple velvet jeans look lovely on you, but I think they’d look better on the floor, would you take them off please?”

- Amanda Redman, above, tells the Radio Times her own #MeToo moment in an audition in the early 1980s

“Large numbers of the population will become infected because it’s a naive population - nobody has got antibodies to this virus currently. We will see many thousands of people infected by coronavirus, that’s what we’re seeing in other countries, and the important thing for us is to make sure that we manage those infections”

- England’s deputy chief medical

officer Dr Jenny Harries

“It is bad news for everyone who cannot obtain a passport without the requirement imposed by the UK Government that they should collude in their own social invisibility”

- Christie Elan-Cane after the campaigner lost a Court of Appeal challenge over genderneutral passports