Tom Watson to Rupert Murdoch: “Your wife has a very good left hook.” (meaning right hook)
Sir Paul Stephenson on Neil Wallis: “I had no reason to connect Wallis with phone hacking. I had no reason to doubt his impropriety.” (meaning propriety)
Rupert Murdoch: “The most humble day of my life.” (meaning so far)
Boris Johnson (asked if David Cameron should resign): “I’m not here to discuss government appointments.”
David Cameron on Rebekah Brooks: “I can assure the House that I’ve never held a slumber party or seen her in her pyjamas.”
Downing St aide to journalists on return flight from Lagos: “Rupert Murdoch has been hit by a phone.” (meaning foam)
Jim Pickard
Kiran Stacey