News about Lady May

It is only right to raise a salute when a former prime minister leaves the House of Commons. No matter how long or short a time, the occupancy of the high office is a significant undertaking. With Theresa May's resignation as an MP, propriety must therefore be observed. Let her stamina and a sense of duty be acknowledged. She has worked for her time, at the age of 67. However, public life isn't always straightforward. There is no way to stop a certain stench bomb from being produced. Lady May (as she should be officially addressed), was a dismal prime minister who left Downing Street after her husband Philip received a knighthood. She was right down in the reputational basement with Lord North (loss of the American colonies), Anthony Eden (Suez) and Liz Truss (economic meltdown). Thinking about her premiership fills one with sadness. Who can forget the drab agony of those days, the stagnation, the half-choked repetition of ' Brexit means Brexit' and 'strong and stable leadership' in that clucking-pheasant voice? She was both strong and stable as a leaky garbage. Our country has almost lost money.

QUENTIN LETTINGS: James Cleverly answered backbench MPs' questions about Gaza for an hour and a half. Everyone accepted the suggestion that what was described as global importance. No one denied the delusion by boasting that "come on it, we're distant onlookers in all this." An MP woke up on their hind legs to announce that the people of Israel and Gaza were in their thoughts and prayers. Eleanor Laing, the deputy Speaker of the United Kingdom, might not have to suffer any more. She said, "It is not for every member to voice their pity and sympathy." That has been done! Let us take it for granted that we're all brokenhearted.'

Some silences seem to be more silent than others. The one in the Commons describing the Hamas massacre was almost pin-drop absolute. Speaker Lindsay Hoyle marshalled it with all his authority, making sure everyone was in place and ready. Brooking no nonsense, he maintained that what had happened to Israel was terrorism. Everyone - both MPs and those in the galleries - stayed for a minute as a result. Nearly, there were family members of some of the hosts, as well as a group of men accompanied by a priest.