Penny Mordaunt claims Commons Speaker Hoyle is victim of ‘weak and fickle’ Starmer

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00:00 I want to say that this House will never bow to extremists, threats or intimidation.

00:09 It has not, it will not, it must not.

00:14 And I would ask all honourable members not to do this House a further disservice

00:20 by suggesting that the shameful events that took place yesterday

00:25 were anything other than party politics on behalf of the people.

00:30 If the honourable lady opposite cannot bring herself to reflect on the appalling consequences

00:39 of her party's actions yesterday, if she cannot rise above the narrow and immediate needs

00:47 of her weak and fickle leader, to fulfil her duties to this House as its shadow leader,

00:57 perhaps she might like to reflect on the damage her party has done to the office of the Speaker.

01:05 I would never have done to him what the Labour party have done to him.

01:12 Secondly, we have seen into the heart of Labour's leadership

01:19 nothing is more important than the interests of the Labour party.

01:25 The Labour party before principle, the Labour party before individual rights,

01:33 the Labour party before the reputation and honour of the decent man that sits in Speaker's chair.