THEY SAID WHAT?

“If a meeting’s gone in the diary for Sue Gray and the Prime Minister to meet, I guarantee you it’s not because the Prime Minister wants to influence the report”

- Education Secretary Nadhim

Zahawi. “Well, for us, the most important thing is that the Government intervenes, it’s up to the Government to decide how they fund that. All I would say is that it’s important that, when they are taxing to address this challenge, that they tax those with the broadest shoulders” - Michael Lewis, chief executive of

E.ON UK, above.

“I don’t think a windfall tax is the most efficient way to do anything, I don’t think it drives forward at a pace”

- International Trade Secretary

Anne-Marie Trevelyan.

“They’re willing to continue to have this constant grievance with the European Union, and Northern Ireland is a useful lever for them. But it’s very damaging for community relations and for good governance in Northern Ireland”

- Alliance Party leader Naomi Long, who claims the Conservative Party believes tensions over the protocol are “positive” electorally.

“When you’ve lost four elections in a row you can’t just go back to the same policy platform, a person in a different suit and expect the electorate to take a different attitude. So, I’m very much in favour of root-and-branch examination of things”

- Shadow Treasury minister Pat McFadden said Sir Keir Starmer needs to go further to overhaul Labour’s policies before the next general election.