Our 2025 Quiz To Test Your Knowledge Of What Politicians Really Say
2025 was yet another very eventful year, one where politicians repeatedly forgot to deploy any kind of filter when in public.
But can you remember who said what?
Here’s a look at some of the particularly surprising quotes from the last 12 months which just might be keeping some famous faces up at night well into 2026.
Who said what?
1. “Six seven! Yeah... Six seven! Everyone, yeah! Six seven! Doing page six seven?”
a. Keir Starmer
b. David Lammy
c. Kemi Badenoch
2. “Growth people can feel in their pockets.”
a. Labour press release
b. Conservative brochure
c. Reform party slogan
3. “They call me the president of Europe. Which is an honour. I like Europe.”
a. King Charles
b. Giorgia Meloni
c. Donald Trump
4. “Daddy has to sometimes use strong language.”
a. Liz Truss
b. Mark Rutte
c. JD Vance
5. “Journalists are like maggots — if you put them on gangrenous wounds, they will excavate the corruption and leave healthy tissue.”
a. Geoffrey Cox
b. Jacob Rees-Mogg
c. Rishi Sunak
6. “Quiet. Quiet, piggy!”
a. Nigel Farage
b. Robert F Kennedy Jr
c. Donald Trump
7. “Ladies and gentlemen, I’m proud to be a woman – and proud to have breasts!”
a. Priti Patel
b. Andrea Jenkyns
c. Suella Braverman
8. “ChatGPT is fantastic. I just ask questions. ChatGPT always says, ’oh your questions are so clever, you’re brilliant, you’re excellent, you have such insight.”
a. Liz Truss
b. Jacob Rees-Mogg
c. Boris Johnson
9. “Anyone who attacks my wife [...] can eat shit.”
a. JD Vance
b. Keir Starmer
c. Robert Jenrick
10. “There are lots of people who want to tell me know to do my job, I’m doing my job the way I think it should be done.”
a. Nigel Farage
b. Kemi Badenoch
c. Ed Davey
11. “It’s highly likely that the Covid vaccines have been a factor – a significant factor – in the cancer of members of the royal family.”
a. A guest speaker at a Reform Party conference
b. A guest speaker at a Republican Party conference
c. A guest speaker at a Tory Party conference
12. “I’ll leave [Prince Harry] alone. He’s got enough problems with his wife – she’s terrible.”
a. Donald Trump
b. Piers Morgan
c. JD Vance
13. “What you’ve seen from a silly No 10 source overnight is probably the worst attack on a faithful since Joe Marler was banished in The Traitors final.”
a. Shabana Mahmood
b. Angela Rayner
c. Wes Streeting
14. “I believe in free speech but on this occasion just shut up. You are completely out of touch. And a bit of a hypocrite.”
a. Lee Anderson
b. Robert Jenrick
c. Richard Tice
15. “Patriotic Brits have had enough. We look across the Atlantic with envy.”
a. Andrea Jenkyns
b. Liz Truss
c. Suella Braverman
Answers below...
Answers
1. (a) – Keir Starmer speaking to primary school students while on a trip to Welland Academy in Peterborough in November.
2. (a) – Labour government press release from September while announcing new ministerial appointments.
3. (c) – US president Donald Trump speaking to reporters in the Oval Office in August.
4. (b) – Nato chief Mark Rutte appearing to support Donald Trump’s management of the Israel-Iran conflict in June.
5. (a) – Former Tory attorney general Sir Geoffrey Cox speaking at the Free Speech Union in April.
6. (c) – Donald Trump attacking a journalist in November after she asked a question about Jeffrey Epstein.
7. (b) – Reform mayor of Greater Lincolnshire Andrea Jenkyns discussing women’s safety at a party press conference in August.
8. (c) – Former Tory PM Boris Johnson explaining how he uses AI and ChatGPT when writing his new books back in October.
9. (a) – US vice-president JD Vance defending his wife Usha in an interview with UnHerd in December.
10. (b) – Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch rejecting criticism over her performance in PMQs in May.
11. (a) – British cardiologist Aseem Malhortra speaking at Reform’s annual party conference in September during his “Make Britain health again” speech.
12. (a) Donald Trump speaking about Prince Harry and his wife Meghan in March.
13. (c) – Health secretary Wes Streeting dismissing claims he was plotting against the prime minister on BBC Breakfast in November.
14. (a) – Reform UK MP Lee Anderson in a post on X criticising Gary Neville over his comments about the Union Jack in October.
15. (b) – Former Tory prime minister Liz Truss speaking in February at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, in the US.