Tried to make a Point of Order to the Speaker, but #Bercow hurriedly left the Chamber! So had to ask Deputy Spkr why he had "scurried off".

— Michael Fabricant 🇬🇧🇮🇱🇺🇦 (@Mike_Fabricant) September 2, 2014

Is the Speaker now going to avoid Points of Order every day???? #Bercowcrisis

— Michael Fabricant 🇬🇧🇮🇱🇺🇦 (@Mike_Fabricant) September 2, 2014

That must be a record for an Urgent Question. Prolix MPs were allowed to ramble at will around the Rotherham horror. At the end an hour and a half (UQs can be over in 25 minutes) the Speaker, in Michael Fabricant’s phrase “scurried off”.

Fabricant has questions about Saxton Bampfylde’s role in the now infamous appointment. He wants to ask the Speaker, personally. Under privilege.

The Speaker will try and stop him asking those questions because the answers are probably fatal.

Someone has acted with career-ending impropriety. It’s either the head hunters or it’s their client the Speaker.

Unless the Speaker takes to his bed with Pre-Traumatic Stress we might find out whether it’s the one or the other tomorrow directly after PMQs.