Westminster wars ...

I’M aLL for sajid Javid’s ‘cowboy pose’ outside the Home Office. Legs apart, hands poised like a gunslinger ready to shoot. He was a dead ringer for Yul Brynner in the Magnificent seven. and the good news, given the high turnover of Home secretaries over the years, is Brynner’s character was one of only three of the seven who survived.

SPEAKER Bercow faces three accusations of bullying — one from a former, very senior, Parliament official. I’m beginning to feel for his longsuffering wife Sally. Is it any wonder she sought solace in the arms of his cousin and took to the bottle?