Western Morning News (Saturday)
The things they say
“It’s easy to comfort yourself that your opponents are bad people. But I don’t think Boris Johnson is a bad man. I think he is a trivial man. I think he’s a showman with nothing left to show. I think he’s a trickster who has performed his one trick.”
- Sir Keir Starmer in his first in-conference speech as Labour leader. “I don’t consider it to be heckling, I consider that I stood up and spoke out because it needed to be said.”
- Labour activist Carole Vincent, who expects to be thrown out of the party for heckling during Sir Keir Starmer’s speech. “We are extremely disappointed to hear many forecourt staff are experiencing a high level of both verbal and physical abuse, which is completely unacceptable.”
- Gordon Balmer, executive director of the Petrol Retailers Association.
“It is clear that as we move into the winter period, we need to continue to balance the capacity of the NHS to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic against increasing demands of emergency, urgent and planned care and delayed discharges. With this in mind, I have decided that the NHS will remain on an emergency footing until at least March 31 2022.”
- Scotland’s Health Secretary
Humza Yousaf. “I just want Georgina’s family to know, and anybody else who I helped that day, I’m very sorry for what happened to her but... everybody that was with them tried their hardest to make sure they were safe and secure and protected and loved in that moment. They weren’t alone.”
- Off-duty nurse Beth Crook, who helped teenager Georgina
Callander, who died in the Manchester Arena explosion.