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Speaker’s Sky-High Travel Bill Sparks Backlash – But He Says It’s ‘Speaking Truth to Power’

Sir Lindsay Hoyle is catching some serious heat over his globe-trotting ways, having clocked up 19 international trips in just two years.

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Hoyle says he represents Commons ‘at home and abroad’ amid expenses reports

The Commons Speaker mentioned the foreign travel of previous speakers at the Society of Editors’ Media Freedom Conference in London on Tuesday.

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Fact check: Southport attack has been repeatedly discussed in Parliament

A claim has circulated that MPs were banned from discussing the case of Axel Rudakubana.

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OPINION - Sir Lindsay Hoyle: where did it all go so wrong for the Speaker of the House of Commons?

Friends of the House of Commons Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, are putting it about that there’s a diabolical plot by “woke” Labour MPs to replace him. This follows a series of hideously embarrassing revelations by the Mail about his jet-setting abroad at taxpayers’ expense.

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What the papers say – March 15

A wide range of stories feature across Saturday’s front pages.

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Deliveries of Chinese Communist Party newspaper to MPs could be stopped

Sir Lindsay Hoyle has asked for review after MPs complained about ‘propaganda’ newspaper China Daily being delivered directly to them.

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Commons Speaker orders review after Big Ben clock tower security incident

A man spent more than 16 hours barefoot and holding a Palestine flag while perched on the clock tower of Big Ben on Saturday.

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MP calls for knighthood for rugby league ‘hero’ Billy Boston

Labour MP for Makerfield Josh Simons said it ‘is a scandal that for over a century, no rugby football league hero has received a knighthood’.

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Starmer vows to investigate defence statement leak as Hoyle calls out redaction

Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle asked the Prime Minister if he had provided redacted parts of his statement to the media or if it had been leaked.

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Speaker Lindsay Hoyle slams Keir Starmer in Commons row over defence statement

LINDSAY Hoyle has hit out at Keir Starmer, claiming that the Prime Minister had provided a redacted version of his defence spending statement to…

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Badenoch faces call to apologise after party political clip filmed in Parliament

The video features a brief clip of Speaker’s Court, part of the Palace of Westminster.

Evening Standard

Now is right time to knight rugby league star Kevin Sinfield – Commons Speaker

Sir Lindsay Hoyle said it is a ‘major injustice’ that no player from the sport has ever been knighted.

The Independent UK

Commons Speaker pays tribute to his father, former Labour MP Doug Hoyle

Sir John Major was among the dignitaries who attended a memorial service for Lord Hoyle in Westminster on Tuesday.

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Rename Heathrow airport after Queen Elizabeth II to mark 100th birthday, says MP

Adam Jogee says it would be a ‘wonderful tribute’ to the late monarch who died aged 96 in September 2022.

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PM says Badenoch wants to ‘shrink pensions’ as he commits to no means-testing

Kemi Badenoch accused the Prime Minister of having ‘misled’ MPs in relation to his comments on the Children’s Wellbeing Bill.

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Lindsay Hoyle makes special nod to House of Commons in Emmerdale cameo

Sir Lindsay Hoyle made a special nod to the House of Commons when he made his cameo in the ITV soap Emmerdale.

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Lindsay Hoyle makes Emmerdale cameo as Commons Speaker drops into bistro for a cuppa

The Commons Speaker visited the ITV soap as they celebrated their 10,000th episode, but the producers were unable to use footage of him because of the election

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Strangers’ bar in Parliament to close after alleged spiking

Speaker Lindsay Hoyle and the Director of Parliamentary Security ordered the closure on safety grounds

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LS Speaker Om Birla highlights India's electoral excellence in meeting with Speaker of UK House of Commons

On this occasion, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla also extended new year greetings to Lindsay Hoyle and congratulated him on his election as the Speaker, House of Commons, for the second time. Read further on Dynamite Nes:

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Call for UK Parliament rule change to allow MPs to freely debate royals

CAMPAIGNERS have called for the UK Parliament to change its rules so MPs can debate the royal family without any restrictions.

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Lindsay Hoyle slammed for opening Betfred's new multimillion-pound headquarters

THE COMMONS Speaker has been condemned after opening gambling firm Betfred’s new multimillion-pound headquarters ...

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Lindsay Hoyle must apologise for opening Betfred HQ, gambling reform campaigners say

Decision brings Commons speaker’s role into disrepute, says Will Prochaska

The Independent UK

Small parties must get chance to scrutinise assisted dying proposal, Plaid urges

MPs backed the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill 330 votes to 275, majority 55, at its second reading.

The Independent UK

MPs run out of time to debate Palestinian statehood Bill

Independent MP Shockat Adam had seconds left at the end of Parliament’s Friday sitting to present his Bill to recognise the state of Palestine.

Evening Standard

John Prescott ‘got a reception like Beatlemania’, Prime Minister says in tribute

Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle led tributes to Lord Prescott, who died last week, calling him a ‘towering figure in the Labour movement and in this House’.

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