Speaking out MPS respond to chaos in the Commons

Michael Fabricant, former Conservative whip

The Speaker’s decision to break with House of Commons rules and the Clerk of the House issuing a rebuttal is unprecedented and causing a constitutional crisis remarkably uniting the Conservatives and the SNP.

Wes Streeting, shadow health secretary

Take your tin foil hat off. You’re embarrassing yourself.”

Dame Jackie Doyle-price, Conservative

This is a bad day for Parliament. Conservatives should always defend constitutional precedent. Leave bad behaviour to our opponents.

Steven Bonnar, SNP

The events in the House of Commons chamber today are completely unprecedented. A place that is so damn keen on convention and precedent, yet both have been forgotten about all very suddenly today.

Karl Mccartney, Conservative

Would love to see the Whatsapp, emails and other communications of the eight Labour MPS overhead last night saying ‘it’s ok, Lindsay is sorting it for us’.

Pete Wishart, SNP

The Speaker is now refusing to take points of order about his ‘new’ precedent and the letter from the Clerk of the House. Absolutely ridiculous ruling from the Speaker. He has totally lost it and this will come back to haunt him. He talks about ‘precedent’ but this has practically never happened.

Maria Caulfield, former Conservative minister

Now we know why Sue Gray was on the Speakers corridor ahead of the start of the opposition day debate and then outside the Labour whip’s office.

Toby Perkins, shadow Labour minister

“A lot of confected outrage about this, but it will allow all MPS to back a motion that reflects their views, which is democratically crucial on this vital issue.”

Stewart Mcdonald, SNP

“The result of this presumably being that anything legitimately brought forward by SNP MPS can now be swept aside at the Speaker’s behest if the Labour opposition ask him to – something even the government hasn’t asked the Speaker to do