THEY SAID WHAT?

“Please, please will this Government for once listen to us. We do know what we’re doing, we do. Just listen and knock all these platitudes and endless, endless blunt instruments that don’t apply across the board”

- Andrew Lloyd Webber criticises the Government’s self-isolation rules which resulted in the cancellation of performances of his West End show Cinderella.

“I’m not comfortable that Government is mandating anything, frankly. I’m a very libertarian Conservative, I want to be able to back off... But what we have to do is make sure that people will also live their lives safely, the NHS can function safely and these are the challenges that we still have to do”

- Business minister Paul Scully, below, on plans for Covid-19

vaccine passports. “I’ve worn many hats over the years, both literally and figuratively, and my hope is that in telling my story – the highs and lows, the mistakes, the lessons learned – I can help show that no matter where we come from, we have more in common than we think”

- The Duke of Sussex announces he is to publish a literary memoir

next year.

“I said to him [Boris Johnson], there’s people in this office who are isolating, you might have coronavirus, I might have coronavirus, you can’t go and see the Queen... I just said if you, if you give her coronavirus and she dies, what, what are you gonna, you can’t do that, you can’t risk that, that’s completely insane. And he said he basically just hadn’t thought it through”

- Dominic Cummings claims in an interview with the BBC that Boris Johnson wanted to visit the Queen in person early in the pandemic

despite Downing Street staff already falling ill with Covid-19.