It’s true that next month the days will be getting shorter but even so, it’s early for a panto season. Waiting for PMQs to start, Labour gave Tory MPs coming onto the floor of the House a rising whoaahhhhh! until they broke in the direction of the Government benches. After Elphicke and Poulter, would they/wouldn’t they come and join the Labour dance? Neither of those two trans Members, now identifying as socialists, were present. And probably never will be. They must now ring a silver bell in front of them as they wander the earth.
In a rare display of cross-party whippery, Alan Campbell and Simon Hart came onto the Floor of the House together and took their places. Quite what that meant is lost in the dark sodality of chief whips. Anyway, the two principal boys came in and it was showtime.
