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Coffee House Shots

Has Lindsay Hoyle overstepped?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Sir Keir Starmer can breathe a sigh of relief this afternoon, thanks to Lindsay Hoyle. The Speaker has selected Labour’s amendment on a Gaza ceasefire, which means that a likely mass rebellion from Labour MPs will be averted. SNP and Tory MPs are furious at Hoyle, and say that he has tried to rewrite the rules. What's going on? Katy Balls speaks to James Heale and Isabel Hardman.

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as spectators daily politics podcast. I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by Isla Bahad. Nots are Spectators Daily Politics Podcast.

0:22.9

I'm joined by Islle Hardman and James Heel.

0:26.9

Now, this was meant to be the day that his son could suffer

0:30.8

his biggest commons rebellion to date, the SME had an Opposition Day motion

0:36.2

calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. However, Labour then came up with her own amendment

0:42.3

as we discussed yesterday calling for an immediate

0:44.4

humanitarian ceasefire that they hoped would blunt this and therefore mean that they would not have

0:50.2

to have MPs vote on the SMP one. Then, late last night, the government

0:54.3

published its own amendment and that meant Kistama appeared to be in hot water once

0:59.1

again because precedent would mean that the government amendment was picked over the

1:03.4

labour one but Isabel that's not happening instead Lindsay Hall has made

1:09.9

what is quite a controversial decision yeah Yeah, so, and James was covering this, so he'll have the full details of the drama in the comments,

1:19.5

but as you say you had these two amendments from Labor and the Tories different enough for them both to sort of merit selection

1:28.0

but possibly to somebody who was sort of lazily looking at them still quite similar and I think this is one of the things

1:36.2

that is that is causing such anguish for labor MPs in particular is that there are these tiny differences that are hugely potent in the wording,

1:48.0

not just on immediate ceasefire, but also on what a ceasefire actually would mean.

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