Leader of the House of Commons Penny Mordaunt has backed Lindsay Hoyle in the row over the Gaza ceasefire vote – and accused Labour of picking on the Speaker.
Mordaunt said Hoyle was a ‘decent man’ and blamed Keir Starmer’s party for last night’s debacle in the Commons. The Tory MP hit out at her opposite number, shadow leader of the house, Lucy Powell, saying: ‘I would never have done to him (Hoyle) what the Labour party have done to him’. She added:
‘If she cannot rise above narrow and immediate needs of her weak and fickle leader…perhaps she might like to reflect on the damage her party has done to the office of the Speaker.’
"Perhaps she might like to reflect on the damage her party has done to the office of the Speaker"
Leader of the House Penny Mordaunt responds to Lucy Powell and attacks Labour's role in the Gaza vote chaos
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