The things they say
“I think the brutal reality is this country didn’t learn the lessons of Sars or Mers and we didn’t have a test operation ready to go on the scale that we needed”
– Prime Minister Boris
Johnson “Such an extension of up to one or two years can be agreed jointly by the two parties. The European Union has always said that we remain open on this matter” – EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier says the bloc is open to extending the transition
period “What I want is honesty from Government all the time and if their response is they can’t review things or they don’t want to, I accept that they’ll say that. But I do feel that if there are people with children, who have been fined for doing that, then they’ll want some sort of recourse”
– Reverend Martin Poole after the Government rowed back on Matt Hancock’s pledge to look into reviewing fines for
those seeking childcare “What I look forward to in the future is carrying with me what I have been forced to learn in these circumstances. It is the essential. The people you love. Being able to take care of them and be with them as much as you can”
– Martin Scorsese, who has made a short film for the BBC
on isolation “Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen. We saw what they attempted to do, and failed, in 2016. We can’t let a more sophisticated version of that happen again”
– US President Donald Trump threatens social media firms
with closure after Twitter added a fact check to one of
his tweets “When I was deep in my addiction I would hate Gemma, I would say ‘Why are you telling my family? Why are you telling my friends? Why are you telling bosses of my TV shows? You’re going to ruin my career.’ But she refused to cover up for me, she wasn’t an enabler, she would never lie for me, she would never cover up”
– Towie star James “Arg” Argent opens up about his
drug addiction