THEY SAID WHAT?

“Obviously many other countries around the world use a different rule. We have seen a couple of countries recently - Norway and Denmark - have moved from two metres to something less. It is important that we look at it comprehensively, in the round, and that is what we will do urgently”

- Chancellor Rishi Sunak on social

distancing.

“If it did move to one metre without there being scientific advice backing that you would end up with a second peak, which would cause even greater economic damage”

- Labour’s shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds.

“Overall, I think there is a pretty good chance that an agreement can be reached”

- Roberto Azevedo, director general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), said he believes there is a chance the UK and EU will strike a deal before the end of the transition period.

“I think its message is absolutely that in the face of a national emergency, something that can hit you out of the blue which none of us are prepared for, that we do have the courage and the bravery to face it, and that’s what the people of Salisbury did”

- Actress Annabel Scholey, above, who plays Sarah Bailey, the wife of police officer Nick Bailey who was poisoned by the nerve agent Novichok, in BBC drama The Salisbury Poisonings.

“It’s horrifying that at the moment across this country it’s hard to be black or Asian and not know someone, or someone who knows someone, who has died. I’ve lost an uncle. I’ve lost a classmate who died at 45 due to this terrible virus” - Labour’s shadow justice secretary David Lammy.