The Sun on Sunday’s Kate Ferguson was hard at work covering prime minister’s questions live on X today, but curiously one outbreak of dissent failed to warrant a single post.
While finding time to moan about “Labour MPs still blaming Thatcher for anything bad in the economy” (“There is desperate and then there is just insulting”) and noting energy secretary Ed Miliband’s absence from the chamber, Ferguson appeared to miss the rare sight of a shadow secretary of state being turfed out of the Commons by the speaker.
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Interrupting a lame joke by Keir Starmer about how Reform now supported recycling (because they’re recycling Tory MPs, geddit?), Lindsay Hoyle appeared to hear something he didn’t like from the Tory frontbench, hollering: “Order, order! Mr Holden, I think you need to leave. I’ve had enough.” Shadow transport secretary Richard ‘Billericay Dicky’ Holden, a former chair of his party, then sheepishily left the chamber.
Quite what Holden said to ire Hoyle – who often threatens errant MPs with an early “cup of tea” but rarely follows through on it – is unknown, but don’t expect to find out in the Sun on Sunday this weekend. Holden is Ferguson’s partner.
It’s been quite the week for Holden, who is widely rumoured in Tory circles to have played a role in tipping off Kemi Badenoch about Robert Jenrick’s defection. Though if he was hoping to get his job in return, it clearly didn’t pay off.
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