Western Morning News (Saturday)
The things they say
Matt Hancock, Simon Byrne and Lisa Nandy
■ “I’m just so proud of the team who are delivering this, it’s going really, really well. You saw yesterday 10 million jabs done. Today we passed the threshold of one in five of the population who have been jabbed already”
– Health Secretary Matt Hancock hails the rollout of
the vaccine programme.
■ “It is now time for wise words and calm heads. We need to work together to look at a route map to normality because that seems to be the opportunity before us, to step back from the brink in terms of community tension”
– Northern Ireland’s chief constable Simon Byrne, on
rising tensions over disruption to Irish Sea trade from the rest of the
UK after Brexit.
■ “We’ve had a dreadful first few weeks of trading in a post-Brexit world, there’s no way of sugarcoating it... I think the biggest single challenge we have just now is denial. I think it is denial, from the UK Government in particular, of the scale of the problem”
– James Withers, chief executive at Scottish Food and Drink, on the problems
facing businesses exporting to the European Union.
■ “Dominic Raab told MPs that she was entitled to protection as the spouse of an employee, but new information provided by her lawyer clearly indicates that she wasn’t... After almost 18 months of fighting for justice for their son, Harry’s family deserve the truth. Dominic Raab must come before MPs tomorrow and explain himself”
– Shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy urges Dominic Raab to “explain himself” after a court heard Harry Dunn’s alleged killer worked for a US intelligence agency at the time of the fatal road crash.
■ “I don’t want to see any other families go through what I did, losing my best friend. I would not want anyone to suffer such pain, sadness and grief that I have to endure since losing my husband. I want to keep giving back to honour John’s memory”
– Nurse Maria Hewitt, who has joined efforts to vaccinate people against Covid-19, says she hopes to protect others from the virus which took her husband’s life.