Commons chaos revealed the threat to MPs’ safety
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:19.2 | Hello and welcome to coffee house shots. |
| 0:20.8 | I'm James Heel. |
| 0:21.6 | I'm joined today by Isabel Hartman and Fraser Nelson. |
| 0:24.1 | We've reached the end of a tumultuous week in British politics, MPs are now in their |
| 0:27.7 | constituency on this Friday morning, but I think everyone's really picking over |
| 0:31.2 | what just happened this week with the speaker |
| 0:32.9 | forced twice to apologize for his decision on the Wednesday votes on the Gaza |
| 0:37.8 | ceasefire. Fraser what do you make of it all? I think this has been quite a historic |
| 0:42.0 | week for Parliament. because we've had |
| 0:46.6 | first of all a huge debate over the correct proceedings of an opposition day debate. |
| 0:50.6 | This would be normally, this only happens about three or four times a year with a smaller |
| 0:53.9 | opposition party gets to do its own debate. Normally absolutely nobody cares. Nobody cares what anybody says, |
| 0:59.9 | nobody cares when anybody votes, but this time it's become thrust right into the center of the |
| 1:05.1 | British political debate, and that debate has been about the probity, about the Constitution, |
| 1:10.0 | about the standing orders of the House of Commons. |
| 1:14.0 | Now, we've had the, I think the scenes which we saw on Wednesday were absolutely extraordinary, |
| 1:19.8 | a speaker, a speaker being heckled, being jeered, he's supposed to be the figure of complete authority |
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