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QUOTES of the week

‘I was about to voice my great offence until I realised I might have to sit alongside him at GB News when I retire.’ BBC broadcaster Huw Edwards after being mistaken for Eamonn Holmes. ‘I had to do a speed awareness course too, and, as a famous actor, it was humiliating. No one recognised me.’ Actor Eddie Marsan’s tongue-in-cheek take on the Suella Braverman situation. ‘This will send a message to the gormless and feckless who think they can come here on a holiday from morality. Newsflash to all potheads: go giggle elsewhere!’ Amsterdam councillor Diederick Boomsma after the Dutch capital banned smoking cannabis in public. ‘He didn’t look like a terrorist. He looked like someone who’d had a bad day.’

Simon Parry, who witnessed a driver crash into the gates of Downing Street. ‘I am one of the many women to have seen Boris Johnson naked.’ Left-wing columnist Polly Toynbee, recalls meeting the former Prime Minister in 1964 when he was a baby. ‘I used to keep some coins in my pocket because I would often get off the bus and hear a small child cry. And I would think, “Oh no, she’s taken their ice cream.” ’

Former Cabinet Minister David Blunkett confesses that his former guide dog Ruby could land him in trouble. ‘I don’t want to, and if I don’t want to, the others won’t.’

Abba’s Benny Andersson rules out a 50th anniversary reunion for the band at next year’s Eurovision in Sweden.

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