'Boris is Boris': who said what this week in Brexit?

Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson arrives for a cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street on 21 September. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters
  1. 'Boris is Boris'

    1. Battle of Britain Memorial Service, Westminster Abbey, London, UK - 17 Sep 2017<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by A Davidson/SilverHub/REX/Shutterstock (9065268bl) Theresa May Battle of Britain Memorial Service, Westminster Abbey, London, UK - 17 Sep 2017
      Battle of Britain Memorial Service, Westminster Abbey, London, UK - 17 Sep 2017
      Mandatory Credit: Photo by A Davidson/SilverHub/REX/Shutterstock (9065268bl) Theresa May Battle of Britain Memorial Service, Westminster Abbey, London, UK - 17 Sep 2017

      Theresa May

    2. Ministers Attend The Weekly Government Cabinet Meeting<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 12: Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Michael Gove departs Downing Street after the weekly cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street on September 12, 2017 in London, England. (Photo by John Phillips/Getty Images)
      Ministers Attend The Weekly Government Cabinet Meeting
      LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 12: Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Michael Gove departs Downing Street after the weekly cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street on September 12, 2017 in London, England. (Photo by John Phillips/Getty Images)

      Michael Gove

    3. Amber Rudd: UK terror threat level reduced to 'severe' – video
      Amber Rudd: UK terror threat level reduced to 'severe' – video

      Amber Rudd

    4. US President Donald Trump listens during a meeting on United Nations Reform at the UN headquarters on September 18, 2017 in New York City. / AFP PHOTO / Brendan SmialowskiBRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images
      US President Donald Trump listens during a meeting on United Nations Reform at the UN headquarters on September 18, 2017 in New York City. / AFP PHOTO / Brendan SmialowskiBRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images

      Donald Trump

  2. 'It’s a bit like a school where discipline has broken down completely [and] the headteacher is barricaded in her own office'

    1. Amber Rudd, Britain's Home Secretary, arrives for a cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street in London, September 21, 2017. REUTERS/Toby Melville
      Amber Rudd, Britain's Home Secretary, arrives for a cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street in London, September 21, 2017. REUTERS/Toby Melville

      Amber Rudd

    2. Liberal Democrats 2017 Autumn Conference, Bournemouth, UK - 19 Sep 2017<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by A Davidson/SilverHub/REX/Shutterstock (9067191ah) Vince Cable Liberal Democrats 2017 Autumn Conference, Bournemouth, UK - 19 Sep 2017
      Liberal Democrats 2017 Autumn Conference, Bournemouth, UK - 19 Sep 2017
      Mandatory Credit: Photo by A Davidson/SilverHub/REX/Shutterstock (9067191ah) Vince Cable Liberal Democrats 2017 Autumn Conference, Bournemouth, UK - 19 Sep 2017

      Vince Cable

    3. Nicola Sturgeon visits Dundee<br>First Minister Nicola Sturgeon at the Caird Hall in Dundee where she announced Scotland's new social security agency will be headquartered in Dundee. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Monday September 18, 2017. She said the agency would also have a site in Glasgow with at least 1,500 jobs split evenly between the two cities. See PA story SCOTLAND Welfare. Photo credit should read: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

      Nicola Sturgeon

    4. Politicians Walk Along Whitehall<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 24: Ken Clarke, a Minister without Portfolio in the UK Government, leaves the Cabinet Office on September 24, 2012 in London, England. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
      Politicians Walk Along Whitehall
      LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 24: Ken Clarke, a Minister without Portfolio in the UK Government, leaves the Cabinet Office on September 24, 2012 in London, England. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

      Ken Clarke

  3. 'I said before [that the referendum] was a dumb idea, other things should've been tried first. In some possible branches of the future, leaving will be an error.'

    1. George Osborne comments<br>File photo dated 01/06/16 of former chancellor George Osborne, who has reportedly claimed he will not rest until Prime Minister Theresa May is
      George Osborne comments
      File photo dated 01/06/16 of former chancellor George Osborne, who has reportedly claimed he will not rest until Prime Minister Theresa May is

      George Osborne

    2. Dominic Cummings Portrait Session<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 19: Dominic Cummings, former adviser to the Education Secretary Michael Gove, poses for a photograph when he was campaign director at Business for Sterling, on March 19, 2001, in London, England. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)
      Dominic Cummings Portrait Session
      LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 19: Dominic Cummings, former adviser to the Education Secretary Michael Gove, poses for a photograph when he was campaign director at Business for Sterling, on March 19, 2001, in London, England. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

      Dominic Cummings

    3. 'Good Morning Britain' TV show, London, UK - 14 Sep 2017<br>EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NO MERCHANDISING Mandatory Credit: Photo by Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock (9058401e) Diane Abbott 'Good Morning Britain' TV show, London, UK - 14 Sep 2017
      'Good Morning Britain' TV show, London, UK - 14 Sep 2017
      EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NO MERCHANDISING Mandatory Credit: Photo by Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock (9058401e) Diane Abbott 'Good Morning Britain' TV show, London, UK - 14 Sep 2017

      Diane Abbott

    4. Labour Party Lawmaker Kate Hoey Interview<br>Kate Hoey, U.K. Labour party lawmaker, speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview in London, U.K., on Tuesday, May 24, 2016. British broadcasters should be featuring more women in their debates about membership of the European Union, the opposition Labour Party said. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images

      Kate Hoey

  4. 'What I do not envisage is that we should pay into the EU just for access to the single market, or some such concept. It does not seem to be necessary. We do not get money for access to our markets.'

    1. The Prince Of Wales And The Duchess Of Cornwall Attend Service To Mark The 77th Anniversary Of The Battle Of Britain<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 17: Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn attends a service to mark the 77th anniversary of the Battle of Britain at Westminster Abbey on September 17, 2017 in London, England. The annual service remembers the pilots and aircrew of the Royal Air Force who lost their lives in the 1940 Battle of Britain during World War II. (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

      Jeremy Corbyn

    2. Cabinet meeting<br>Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson arriving in Downing Street, London, for a Cabinet meeting where Theresa May will brief on her plans for Brexit before a major speech aimed at helping to break the deadlock in the negotiations with Brussels. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday September 21, 2017. Photo credit should read: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire

      Boris Johnson

    3. United Nations General Assembly, New York, USA - 20 Sep 2017<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Xinhua/REX/Shutterstock (9069143a) British Prime Minister Theresa May United Nations General Assembly, New York, USA - 20 Sep 2017
      United Nations General Assembly, New York, USA - 20 Sep 2017
      Mandatory Credit: Photo by Xinhua/REX/Shutterstock (9069143a) British Prime Minister Theresa May United Nations General Assembly, New York, USA - 20 Sep 2017

      Theresa May

    4. David Davis, Britain's Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, arrives for a cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street in London, September 21, 2017. REUTERS/Toby Melville
      David Davis, Britain's Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, arrives for a cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street in London, September 21, 2017. REUTERS/Toby Melville

      David Davis

  5. 'I still have some difficulty seeing how after the general election, which produced a hung parliament in the UK, this government is going to get its form of Brexit through.'

    1. The Andrew Marr Show<br>For use in UK, Ireland or Benelux countries only EDITORIAL USE ONLY Handout photo issued by the BBC of Shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry appearing on the BBC One current affairs programme, The Andrew Marr Show. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Sunday November 27, 2016. Thornberry has said it is
      The Andrew Marr Show
      For use in UK, Ireland or Benelux countries only EDITORIAL USE ONLY Handout photo issued by the BBC of Shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry appearing on the BBC One current affairs programme, The Andrew Marr Show. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Sunday November 27, 2016. Thornberry has said it is

      Emily Thornberry

    2. Liberal Democrats 2017 Autumn Conference, Bournemouth, UK - 19 Sep 2017<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by A Davidson/SHM/REX/Shutterstock (9067191a) Tim Farron Liberal Democrats 2017 Autumn Conference, Bournemouth, UK - 19 Sep 2017
      Liberal Democrats 2017 Autumn Conference, Bournemouth, UK - 19 Sep 2017
      Mandatory Credit: Photo by A Davidson/SHM/REX/Shutterstock (9067191a) Tim Farron Liberal Democrats 2017 Autumn Conference, Bournemouth, UK - 19 Sep 2017

      Tim Farron

    3. Former British prime minister, Tony Blair, appears on the BBC's The Andrew Marr Show, in central London, Britain September 10, 2017. Jeff Overs/BBC Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVE
      Former British prime minister, Tony Blair, appears on the BBC's The Andrew Marr Show, in central London, Britain September 10, 2017. Jeff Overs/BBC Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVE

      Tony Blair

    4. Sir Kier Starmer speech in London<br>epa05673996 Sir Keir Starmer, Labour shadow secretary for Exiting the European Union delivers a keynote speech to Labour members in Bloomberg in London, Britain, 13 December 2016. The British Supreme Court is currently considering whether the government has the right to trigger article 50 without a parliamentary vote. The government maintains that its executive powers, inherited through what was the royal prerogative entitles it to invoke article 50 without putting it to parliament. EPA/FACUNDO ARRIZABALAGA

      Kier Starmer

  6. 'There is clearly cause for concern about the rate of progress in Brussels just as there is in the UK. And the ball is very much in the prime minister’s court'

    1. EC President Juncker participates in a debate during the plenary session of the EESC in Brussels<br>European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker participates in a debate on the state of the Union during the plenary session of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) in Brussels, Belgium September 21, 2017. REUTERS/Eric Vidal
      EC President Juncker participates in a debate during the plenary session of the EESC in Brussels
      European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker participates in a debate on the state of the Union during the plenary session of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) in Brussels, Belgium September 21, 2017. REUTERS/Eric Vidal

      Jean-Claude Juncker

    2. Britain's opposition Labour party's Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer John McDonnell, speaks during a protest against working conditions and the use of zero-hour contracts at British outlets of US burger chain McDonalds, in central London on September 4, 2017. McDonald's staff have gone on strike for the first time in Britain in two of the chain's outlets in a dispute over pay and conditions. / AFP PHOTO / Tolga AKMENTOLGA AKMEN/AFP/Getty Images

      John McDonnell

    3. Andrew Marr Show with David Davis and Kier Starmer
      Andrew Marr Show with David Davis and Kier Starmer

      Kier Starmer

    4. EU's chief Brexit negotiator Barnier addresses a news conference in Brussels<br>European Union's chief Brexit negotiator Michael Barnier addresses a news conference at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, July 12, 2017. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir
      EU's chief Brexit negotiator Barnier addresses a news conference in Brussels
      European Union's chief Brexit negotiator Michael Barnier addresses a news conference at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, July 12, 2017. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir

      Michel Barnier

  7. 'Leaving the European Union is a great liberation for the United Kingdom, as worthy for celebration as victory at Waterloo or the Glorious Revolution.'

    1. French President Emmanuel Macron reacts as he arrives for a meeting at the city hall as part of a visit to the site of the future Olympic Sailing venue (Voile Olympique) at the
      French President Emmanuel Macron reacts as he arrives for a meeting at the city hall as part of a visit to the site of the future Olympic Sailing venue (Voile Olympique) at the

      Emmanuel Macron

    2. Cabinet Meeting at Downing Street, London, UK - 21 Sep 2017<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Dinendra Haria/REX/Shutterstock (9069349u) Boris Johnson - Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Philip Hammond - Chancellor of the Exchequer. Cabinet Meeting at Downing Street, London, UK - 21 Sep 2017
      Cabinet Meeting at Downing Street, London, UK - 21 Sep 2017
      Mandatory Credit: Photo by Dinendra Haria/REX/Shutterstock (9069349u) Boris Johnson - Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Philip Hammond - Chancellor of the Exchequer. Cabinet Meeting at Downing Street, London, UK - 21 Sep 2017

      Boris Johnson

    3. TOPSHOT - Nigel Farage, former head of Britain's anti-immigration UKIP party speaks with media before attending a meeting of German rightwing populist party AfD (Alternative fuer Deutschland) in Berlin, on September 8, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Odd ANDERSENODD ANDERSEN/AFP/Getty Images
      TOPSHOT - Nigel Farage, former head of Britain's anti-immigration UKIP party speaks with media before attending a meeting of German rightwing populist party AfD (Alternative fuer Deutschland) in Berlin, on September 8, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Odd ANDERSENODD ANDERSEN/AFP/Getty Images

      Nigel Farage

    4. Tory leadership<br>File photo dated 05/09/17 of Tory backbencher Jacob Rees-Mogg who has dismissed speculation about his potential to be Tory leader and insisted
      Tory leadership
      File photo dated 05/09/17 of Tory backbencher Jacob Rees-Mogg who has dismissed speculation about his potential to be Tory leader and insisted

      Jacob Rees-Mogg

  8. 'The very fact we have no idea what the final outcome might look like suggests there is a case for a second referendum'

    1. National funding formula for schools<br>File photo dated 04/10/16 of Education Secretary Justine Greening, who has confirmed
      National funding formula for schools
      File photo dated 04/10/16 of Education Secretary Justine Greening, who has confirmed

      Justine Greening

    2. First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon meets young carers during a visit to the Edinburgh Young Carers Project in Edinburgh on September 20, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Andy BuchananANDY BUCHANAN/AFP/Getty Images
      First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon meets young carers during a visit to the Edinburgh Young Carers Project in Edinburgh on September 20, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Andy BuchananANDY BUCHANAN/AFP/Getty Images

      Nicola Sturgeon

    3. MAY - 2017: LONDON: Tom Watson is Labour's candidate for West Bromwich East in the election. Pictures at Hendon service station. (Photography by Graeme Robertson )
      MAY - 2017: LONDON: Tom Watson is Labour's candidate for West Bromwich East in the election. Pictures at Hendon service station. (Photography by Graeme Robertson )

      Tom Watson

    4. 'Lorraine' TV show, London, UK - 13 Sep 2017<br>EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NO MERCHANDISING Mandatory Credit: Photo by Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock (9054829a) Nick Clegg 'Lorraine' TV show, London, UK - 13 Sep 2017
      'Lorraine' TV show, London, UK - 13 Sep 2017
      EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NO MERCHANDISING Mandatory Credit: Photo by Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock (9054829a) Nick Clegg 'Lorraine' TV show, London, UK - 13 Sep 2017

      Nick Clegg

  9. 'It’s perfectly possible to feel English, British and European at the same time. As it is perfectly normal to be a Dubliner, Irish and European at the same time'

    1. Brexit<br>Handout photo issued by Maxwells of European Parliament Brexit Coordinator, Guy Verhofstadt, addressing a Special Meeting of three Oireachtas Committee in the Dail chamber in Dublin. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Thursday September 21, 2017. The key player in the European Parliament has told Boris Johnson that he is talking nonsense by criticising pro-Europeans in the UK for having split allegiances. See PA story POLITICS Brexit Verhofstadt. Photo credit should read: Maxwells/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

      Guy Verhofstadt

    2. NI powersharing talks<br>DUP leader Arlene Foster speaks at a press conference at Parliament Buildings at Stormont in Belfast, during talks on the prospect of restoring powersharing in Northern Ireland. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Monday September 4, 2017. Negotiations aimed at restoring devolved government were paused over the summer. See PA story ULSTER Politics. Photo credit should read: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

      Arlene Foster

    3. Brexit<br>Taoiseach Leo Varadkar (right) with European Parliament Brexit co-ordinator Guy Verhofstadt on his arrival at Government Buildings, Dublin, where Mr. Verhofstadt will address a special meeting of three Oireachtas Committee in the Dail chamber. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday September 21, 2017. See PA story POLITICS Brexit. Photo credit should read: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

      Leo Varadkar

    4. TUC Annual Congress, Brighton, UK - 12 Sep 2017<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Guy Bell/REX/Shutterstock (9051342ax) Jeremy Corbyn TUC Annual Congress, Brighton, UK - 12 Sep 2017
      TUC Annual Congress, Brighton, UK - 12 Sep 2017
      Mandatory Credit: Photo by Guy Bell/REX/Shutterstock (9051342ax) Jeremy Corbyn TUC Annual Congress, Brighton, UK - 12 Sep 2017

      Jeremy Corbyn

  10. 'Expect negative briefing from the commission, sarcasm from Guy Verhofstadt, and a polite but not positive reply from Michel Barnier and Jean-Claude Juncker.'

    1. Cabinet meeting<br>Leader of the House of Commons Andrea Leadsom leaves 10 Downing Street, London, following a Cabinet meeting where Theresa May briefed her plans for Brexit before a major speech aimed at helping to break the deadlock in the negotiations with Brussels. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday September 21, 2017. Photo credit should read: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire

      Andrea Leadsom

    2. General Election 2017<br>File photo dated 19/07/16 of Theresa May's former chief of staff Nick Timothy, who has said the Tories should have campaigned for change rather than
      General Election 2017
      File photo dated 19/07/16 of Theresa May's former chief of staff Nick Timothy, who has said the Tories should have campaigned for change rather than

      Nick Timothy

    3. Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, two of Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May's closest advisers arrive on the final day of the annual Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham, Britain, October 5, 2016. REUTERS/Toby Melville
      Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, two of Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May's closest advisers arrive on the final day of the annual Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham, Britain, October 5, 2016. REUTERS/Toby Melville

      Fiona Hill

    4. Health workers pay claim<br>File photo dated 28/06/17 of Philip Hammond as leaders of more than a million health workers have submitted an above inflation pay claim directly to the Government, ramping up pressure for an end to years of wage austerity. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Friday September 15, 2017. Fourteen health unions including Unison, the Royal College of Nursing, the Royal College of Midwives, the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, Unite and the GMB have written to the Chancellor, Philip Hammond. See PA story INDUSTRY Claim. Photo credit should read: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire

      Philip Hammond

Solutions

1:A - The prime minister was speaking in Vancouver after Boris Johnson had laid out his plan for Brexit in the Telegraph on Saturday., 2:B - Vince Cable likened Theresa May to a school headteacher “barricaded in her own office” as he predicted the unrest within the Conservative party following Johnson's comments could boost the Liberal Democrats., 3:B - Dominic Cummings, the former director of Vote Leave, fuelled speculation of a fightback by the group's campaigners on Monday as he released a string of tweets arguing that David Davis, the Brexit secretary, and Philip Hammond, the chancellor, were steering Brexit in the wrong direction., 4:B - In an interview with the Guardian the foreign secretary conceded that the UK should make contributions to the EU for access to the single market during the immediate post-Brexit transition period, but not thereafter. , 5:C - In a Bloomberg TV interview Tony Blair said he thinks there is a 30% chance Brexit won't happen. , 6:C - After meeting major players in the EU’s negotiating team Kier Starmer, shadow Brexit secretary, said “high expectations” over Theresa May's speech in Florence on Friday were tempered by concerns over her weakness., 7:D - Jacob Rees-Mogg looks to history in describing what he calls "a vote for freedom" in his contribution to forthcoming literary anthology Goodbye, Europe. He joins those of authors including Ian Rankin, Sarah Perry and Lionel Shriver in the collection of essays and stories., 8:B - Nicola Sturgeon seems to be weighing up the merits of holding two fresh referendums after she told the New Statesman the case for a second referendum on Brexit is becoming “more and more difficult to resist”., 9:A - EU Brexit negotiator Guy Verhofstadt told a meeting of three committees in the Irish parliament that it was perfectly possible to feel European while at the same time feeling allegiance to your country of birth. He went on to censure Boris Johnson, saying his recent criticism of young voters who feel allegiance to Europe was “old-fashioned” and “nonsense”., 10:B - Theresa May's former chief of staff Nick Timothy was speaking ahead of the prime minister's speech in Florence on Friday. Timothy now writes a Telegraph column, and warned in his latest that the speech won't generate 'an immediate breakthrough'.

Scores

  1. 5 and above.

    Not bad! You seem to be pretty much following developments

  2. 9 and above.

    Almost perfect – a fine effort!

  3. 1 and above.

    Hmm ... hit refresh and have another go?

  4. 0 and above.

    Oh dear ... were you really trying?

  5. 10 and above.

    Congratulations – you appear to be making perfect sense of the confusion!