She said it was a quote, symbol of the way in which the Tories have run our criminal justice system into the ground.
她说这是一个声明，象征着保守党将我们的刑事司法系统搞得一团糟。
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Quotation mark
Quotation marks, also called quotes, quote marks, quotemarks, speech marks, inverted commas or talking marks, are punctuation marks used in pairs in various writing systems to set off direct speech, a quotation, or a phrase. The pair consists of an opening quotation mark and a closing quotation mark, which may or may not be the same character.