Prime Minister’s Questions got off to a rowdy start today – which was perhaps not surprising considering that it was the first since Boris Johnson’s resignation last week. But while Boris might have been expecting trouble from the Labour benches, it was parliament’s Scottish MPs who ended up causing trouble.
As the Prime Minister began to answer his first question, the session was drowned out by heckling from the Alba party (formerly of the SNP) who began shouting incoherently about another referendum. Not to be outdone, the MPs were promptly shouted down by Speaker Lindsay Hoyle, who told them to ‘either shut up or get out’.
As the heckling continued a visibly flustered Hoyle finally managed to get hold of their names and ordered the Serjeant-at-arms to escort them from the chamber.
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