THEY SAID WHAT?

“Instead of this endless carping, saying it is difficult to get them, we should actually celebrate the phenomenal success of the British nation in getting up to a quarter of a million tests of a disease that nobody knew about until earlier in the year”

- Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg, above, claims coronavirus testing is a success

“We have to restrict the number of people who are taking tests in the testing sites so that there’s no risk of those tests going out of date when they are processed in the labs. So I do understand how frustrating it feels that when you arrive in the testing site and it doesn’t look like it’s very busy and you can see it could do more, but the capacity constraint isn’t in those testing sites, it’s back in the lab”

- Baroness Dido Harding defends

criticism of the testing system

“We can’t allow the Good Friday Agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland to become a casualty of Brexit. Any trade deal between the US and UK must be contingent upon respect for the Agreement and preventing the return of a hard border. Period”

- US presidential candidate Joe Biden wades into the Brexit row

“The UK action here is defensive in relation to what the EU is doing, it is precautionary, we haven’t done any of this yet, and it is proportionate. What we cannot have is the EU seeking to erect a regulatory border down the Irish Sea between Northern Ireland and Britain”

- Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab

during a visit to the US

“So, I know Trump drives everyone mad – he certainly drives me mad a lot of the time – you have got to deal with the causes of Trump, rather than just the consequences”

- Former Tory PM David Cameron

on US President Donald Trump