‘You go into an election pretending you are not going to have to make spending reductions, then you have to make them, and then you really do have riots on the streets’Tory leader David Cameron on Labour’s spending plans. The Tories are demanding withering cuts immediately
‘I am looking for every single part of the company to take part in some way in this cash-effective way of helping the company’s survival plan. It really counts.’British Airways chief executive Willie Walsh asks staff to work for free for up to a month
"The Labour Party does not want a new leader. There is no vacancy, there is no challenge."David Miliband, foreign secretary, speaking on Radio 4’s Today programme on Tuesday
"Look forward to receiving the money – shall then be able to spend it on lots of booze so that the forthcoming election goes in an alcoholic blur."Cariole Dennet, partner and parliamentary assistant to Tory MP Andrew Turner, in her submission for expenses
"Catch these anti-democratic idiots and get them sacked."BNP leader Nick Griffin on postal workers refusing to deliver Nazi election leaflets
‘Otherwise I might be in line for divorce!’Culture secretary Andy Burnham explains why he needed £16,000 to do up a flat
‘All the claims were within the House of Commons rules’The standard response of all MPs
"The government is putting too much money into negative things like ID cards and surveillance. Why not spend it on positive things?"Raymond Dixon , former shop steward at Visteon Enfield
‘I hoped we might go back to being a caring and progressive party. In the event I couldn’t have been more wrong’Former Labour MP Alice Mahon talks about her disillusion with New Labour
‘If you want to be a superstar blogger, get in the papers but lose Labour an election – you can just fuck off’New Labour’s superstar blogger Derek Draper at last year’s party conference – before he helped cause this week’s crisis
‘We could face situations where chief executives of companies are, as in France recently, taken hostage by protesters.’ Lisa Patmore, partner at Pinsent Masons law firm explaining that as economic conditions deteriorate, workers are more likely to take matters into their own hands
‘The government has put its eggs in that basket and it’s now in a very vulnerable position.’Robin Niblett, director of the Royal Institute of International Affairs on Gordon Brown’s attitude to the G20 summit
