Thread by @paulwaugh

Speaker Hoyle is so furious with @michaelgove for not providing advance copies of his full Cumbria coal statement that he's suspended the Commons.

I'm told Speaker gave Gove "a bollocking" behind the Chair. Gove insisted it wasn’t a ministerial code breach but source says clerks told him in no uncertain terms that it is. Gove had prepped a short 2 min speech (for an Urgent Q) + ad libbed to turn it into a statement

Gove has been ordered to get a transcript of his ad-libbed statement photocopied so all MPs can read it properly. Hence the delay.

All stems from Govt switching Urgent Q at last min to statement. Under min code, advance copy shd be given to Spkr + Oppstn (ie @lisanandy)

A Labour source said: “They often look like they’re making it up as they go along, but I didn’t realise that that’s literally what they do. What a complete and utter shambles.”

.@michaelgove apologises to the Speaker.
But then hits back at @lisanandy: "When she asks 'where is the ambition?' and 'where is the leadership?' I think we all know where the ambition and where the leadership is and it's sitting right across from me."
Even Nandy had to laugh.

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