Speaker Lindsay Hoyle angrily ripped into Labour ministers just now in the Commons for announcing policies in the Budget to the media instead of to the Commons. Including Starmer who this morning announced two new Budget policies…
Hoyle has made these interventions before when Tories announced policies to media. He said today:
“These are major new policy announcements with significant and wide ranging implication for the government’s fiscal policy and for the public finances it is evident to me they should therefore have been made in the first instance in this house and not to the world’s media.”
The Speaker ended up screaming at both benches:
“I don’t want it to continue, and I want to treat this House with the respect is deserves. This side or that side, it is totally unacceptable to go around the world telling everybody rather than these members. They were elected by the constituents of this country and they deserve to be treated better.”
A valiant effort always ignored by ministers. Someone get him a cold towel…
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”