As thoughts turn towards lunch, spare a moment for the poor souls in the Palace of Westminster. There were grumbles this morning that coffee had gone up from the usual sixty pence to a whole pound. Not quite the “high street” prices promised by Speaker Bercow.

You would be hard pushed to get change out of a fiver for a coffee in Costa, Starbucks or Cafe Nero,  but panic not, it will still buy you a steak in Parliament…