Labour’s embattled Deputy Leader was relieved to find herself taking part in a pantomime.
The Speaker declined to call either Anderson or Galloway, just as he had declined last week to call Abbott.
The Conservative benches were glum, but not so glum that they stabbed the PM in the back.
The Chancellor prepared the ground for a general election campaign in which the Conservatives accuse Labour of being feckless.
Flynn, for the SNP, asked in silence about Gaza, and has emerged from the recent ructions with an enhanced reputation.
This is not an issue we should ignore, especially after last Wednesday’s chaos in Parliament. But the language of some Conservative MPs has been hyperbolic and wrong.
More are reportedly saying that they will back a no-confidence vote if Sir Lindsay Hoyle doesn’t indicate that he’s stepping down. It would be quite something if his manoeuvre to get Starmer out of a tough spot ended up inflicting fresh dissension on the Conservatives.
But Starmer failed to establish any kind of personal ascendancy over Sunak at PMQs.
In his ceaseless campaign to prove Labour compassionate, and the Tories out of touch, the Labour leader said he met an ordinary person.
But Starmer, her new admirer, wore the complacent expression of a man who is 20 points ahead in the polls.
Starmer looked and sounded triumphant as he welcomed Labour’s two by-election victors.
Sunak agreed with Rees-Mogg and Davis that bank accounts must not be denied to anyone for exercising their lawful right to free speech.
The Speaker and the leader of the Scots Nats both rebuked Sunak for giving irrelevant and frivolous non-answers.
The Ukrainian President transformed the atmosphere at Westminster, uniting past British heroes with the present heroes fighting to evict his country’s invaders.
Points of parliamentary procedure may seem arcane to journalists and the public, but their fair enforcement is vital to the proper functioning of our democracy.