Fabricant: I hope the Speaker has learnt a valuable lesson

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Conservative MP Sir Michael Fabricant says whilst he hopes the speaker of the House of Commons has "learnt a valuable lesson," he does not think he should lose his job. It comes as Sir Lindsay Hoyle is under pressure over his handling of a debate on Gaza, which resulted in MPs passing Labour’s amendment calling for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” amid scenes of chaos.  Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00 It was chaos yesterday and chaos I'm afraid of the Speaker's own making

00:04 after being bullied in effect by Keir Starmer who was very very nervous about

00:09 a large number of defections to the SMP motion from his own front bench.

00:14 I hope he's learned a valuable lesson but I don't think he should go.

00:17 I mean when I consider all the other Speakers we might have I can think of far far worse.

00:23 He will have learned about last night.

00:25 He clearly was very upset when he gave his apology and the one lesson he must learn

00:31 is that there are conventions in the House of Commons, there are rules

00:36 and the reason why there are is that they work and it gives fairness.

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