Another week, another angry ticking off in the House of Commons by speaker Lindsay Hoyle. Today it was Conservative MP Paul Bristow who felt the full might of Hoyle’s wrath after being singled out for heckling Labour leader Keir Starmer during Prime Minister’s Questions.
Standing at the despatch box, Starmer had challenged Rishi Sunak’s grip on illegal immigration. To the sound of taunting from the government benches, he said: ‘Mr Speaker, if anyone wants to see what uncontrolled immigration looks like, all they’ve got to do is wake up tomorrow morning and see what this government…’
It appears that Hoyle managed to make out Bristow’s voice amongst the hecklers, because at this point he cut Starmer off and rounded on the unfortunate member for Peterborough.
With the air of a primary school teacher itching to banish his naughtiest student from the classroom, Hoyle thundered, ‘Mr Bristow, I think you’re going to be leaving.’
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