Magisterial slap down from Starmer to Pete Wishart on the SNP’s new seating arrangements: “It’s a long way up and there’s far less of them - so I don’t think we need any lectures”

Parliament square closed off after an accident involving a cyclist - hence the noise of an air ambulance being heard in PMQs

A small parliamentary party of 121 means a handful of votes can make a real difference today. Obvious example is 2001 - if just one MP had changed their mind then it would’ve been Michael Portillo, not IDS, facing Ken Clarke in the final two

💥So the Sunday Mail story wasn’t ‘total nonsense’ as Health Secretary Neil Gray claimed. Will he now apologise ?

Breaking: Tory results Jenrick - 28 MPs Badenoch - 22 MPs Cleverly - 21 MPs Tugendhat - 17MPs Stride - 16 MPs Patel - 14 MPs Patel eliminated

“Melmentum” the phrase doing the rounds outside committee room 14

Fabulous chutzpah in the Guardian books section today

Jas Athwal now facing protests about his record as a landlord

‘The vast majority of the Muslims I have spoken to are actually pleased to see someone in public life who is Muslim doing something other than insult British voters.’ Interview with Zia Yusuf, Reform’s new chairman in this week’s The Spectator spectator.co.uk/article/the-br…

An impressive maiden speech. How many have been delivered without notes?

A very happy birthday yesterday for James Cleverly, after finishing third. Told he delivered a ‘stonking’ speech at the Carlton Club’s Pol Cttee drinks for new intake. Line which went down best: “We do not need to reinvent ourselves. We just need to get back to being ourselves”

Disgraceful scenes by the Deputy Prime Minister in Ibiza. Can’t believe she’d bring the office of John Prescott into disrepute.