The best quotes from the final full week of Britain’s election
Key lines from the campaign trail
Would he lie to you?
“I have nothing to do with it, never even thought about it…If you handed it to us on a silver platter, we’d want nothing to do with it.”
Donald Trump protests, perhaps a little too much, that he has no interest in the National Health Service
The last word
“He would be seething at his death, and his life, being used to perpetuate an agenda of hate that he gave his everything fighting against.”
Dave Merritt, whose son Jack was killed by a terrorist near London Bridge, criticises the politicisation of his murder. Guardian
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline "Speakers’ Corner"
Britain December 7th 2019
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