The end of Covid has brought with it the long-overdue restoration of liberties. And few know that better than thirsty MPs and their staff on the parliamentary estate, with the reopening last week of the famous parliament’s Sports and Social bar. On the night in question, Mr S was one of those piling into the legislative watering holes and was the first to report Labour backbencher Neil Coyle’s ‘expletive-laiden tirade’ at Tory MP Craig Williams.
It now transpires that following a complaint, Coyle has now been temporarily banned from the estate’s bars – quite the feat to achieve on the first night of normalcy. Speaker Lindsay Hoyle has now been dragged into the debate about MPs’ drinking habits, having been forced to defend Strangers on Radio 5 Live this morning. He claimed that those in parliament need an ‘outlet’ after working long hours and that if the MPs’ bar was abolished, they would simply pack out the nearby Red Lion instead.
Still, not all those who work in Parliament are such a fan of having drinking facilities available on site. One
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