Watch: Boris and Starmer tributes to Philip

This afternoon the House of Commons will sit for up to seven and a half hours of tributes to Prince Philip. After a minute’s silence and Speaker Lindsay Hoyle describing him as the ‘father of the nation’ Boris Johnson led the way for the party leaders. During his ten minute’s speech Johnson told the Commons that the Duke was a ‘model of selflessness’ who ‘made this country a better place.’ Sporting a new post lockdown haircut Johnson riffed on the funeral arrangements the late Duke planned himself:

It is fitting that on Saturday his Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh will be conveyed to his final resting place in a Land Rover which Prince Philip designed himself, with a long wheel base and capacious rear cabin. Because that vehicle’s unique and idiosyncratic silhouette reminds the world that he was above all a practical man, who could take something very traditional – whether a machine or, indeed, a great national institution – and find a way by his own ingenuity to improve it, to adapt it for the 20th and 21st century.