For the first PMQs since last week’s Opposition Day of Rage, and Keir Starmer’s intervention on the Order Paper followed by 87 signatures on an anti-Speaker EDM – your sketch writer was concerned that Lindsay Hoyle’s era of a kinder, gentler politics was in danger of passing.
However, before the session started, there were indications of a humanitarian pause in hostilities. Keir stood beside the Chair giving off an air of nonchalant humility, chatting with the Speaker’s staff, awaiting the Speaker’s signal to proceed along the front bench to his place. He was acknowledging the authority of the chair.
