Summary
Chaos in the House of Commons as a vote on a Gaza ceasefire motion turns into a row. Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle is facing accusations he played "party politics" by granting a vote on Labour's Gaza ceasefire motion, breaking with convention and sparking fury from SNP and Conservative MPs. He said he allowed the vote to protect MPs' safety, and later apologised, but the row continues, with the SNP's Westminster leader Stephen Flynn saying his party has no confidence in him as speaker. The team discuss why this happened, and what might happen next.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.8 | Hi, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:16.3 | that brings you an inside look at the big stories |
| 0:18.7 | coming out of Holly Roads and Westminster. |
| 0:21.3 | It's 12 minutes past two on Thursday the 22nd of February. |
| 0:25.6 | I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow. |
| 0:28.4 | And today I'm joined by... |
| 0:29.6 | Georgia Roberts, Westminster correspondent based in Westminster. |
| 0:33.5 | And David Wallace Lockhart, political correspondent. |
| 0:36.2 | Who is at Hollywood today? |
| 0:37.8 | So pretty much one big story we're going to focus on today that I feel very much at 13 minutes past two on Thursday afternoon, we're still very much in the middle of. |
| 0:50.9 | And these were the chaotic scenes in the commons last night. |
| 0:57.4 | I'm around about a vote on Gaza and a ceasefire, which became less about the subject |
| 1:04.6 | matter itself and more about process. |
| 1:07.2 | George, I'm sure our listeners will have a rough idea of what we're talking about here, |
| 1:12.1 | but it's probably worth just setting out what was supposed to happen, first of all, |
| 1:17.2 | and then what actually did happen, and then we'll get into all the ins and outs of the politics of it all. |
| 1:22.9 | Okay, so where to begin? |
| 1:25.6 | I know. |
| 1:26.3 | Just to start off with the Speaker himself. |
| 1:29.8 | So that is Lindsay Hoyle. |
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