THEY SAID WHAT?
“I am worried about a second wave. I think you can see a second wave starting to roll across Europe and we’ve got to do everything we can to prevent it from reaching these shores and to tackle it”
- Health Secretary Matt Hancock
warns on coronavirus.
“We haven’t got a clue what’s going on, we really haven’t. We’ve been messed about all day. They were going to make the announcement much earlier in the day, then they were going to make it around 4pm, then 5pm, and now we understand they’re not even going to discuss it until 6pm. What a way to run a country.”
- Mayor of Leicester Sir Peter
Soulsby is frustrated by the Government delaying a decision
on lifting the city’s lockdown.
“Today’s verdict is one that brings profound sorrow. It ends my 25-year marriage to the only man I have ever loved”
- Natalie Elphicke, above, after her husband Charlie, a former Conservative MP, was convicted of sexually assaulting two women.
“With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???”
- US President Donald Trump floats the idea of a “delay” to November’s presidential election.
“Here lies a true American patriot who risked his life for the hope and promise of democracy”
- the Rev Raphael Warnock at the funeral of US congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis in Atlanta, Georgia.