THEY SAID WHAT?

“We are going to open a new chapter in our national story, striking free trade deals around the world and reasserting global Britain as a liberal, outward-looking force for good”

- Prime Minister Boris Johnson,

above, on his EU trade deal.

“This is a simple vote with a simple choice – do we leave the transition period with the treaty negotiated with the EU or do we leave with no deal? And so Labour will vote to implement this treaty today to avoid no deal and to put in place a floor from which we can build a strong future relationship with the EU”

- Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer on the Commons vote on the

deal.

“Our fishing industry, our Scottish fishing industry, was sold out by the Conservatives in the way into Europe in 1973, and as the United Kingdom leaves, they have been sold out all over again”

- SNP’s Westminster leader Ian

Blackford

“Unfortunately it is a pretty grim and depressing picture at the moment”

- England’s deputy chief medical officer Professor Jonathan Van-Tam responds to the fact that most of the country will now be in Tier 4.

“This came through on Christmas Day. This is the worst illness I have ever had, debilitating headaches, muscle joint and even skin pain, dizziness, nausea, no appetite, incredibly chronic fatigue. My wife and I are fit non-smokers and it’s flattened us. I don’t wish this on anyone”

- comedian John Bishop says both he and his wife Melanie contracted coronavirus over the festive

period.