“There is no greater day than seeing a packed chamber with everybody jo...” — Lindsay Hoyle Quote

There is no greater day than seeing a packed chamber with everybody jostling to be in there. That's what brings this House alive, that's what makes this House.

I don't like bullies and injustice.

Others like myself will carry on meeting constituents, but doing it in a very safe environment, that's the key to us. That's what we were elected to do, we have a duty of care not just to ourselves, but to the staff and the people that come to see us.

I genuinely believe that people respond to your behaviour. So if we show respect to each other, we show a higher level of behaviour, and I believe the public will respect us better for it.

Without law, without the social stability it provides, there can't be contracts and deals, there can't be chamber meetings, there can't be good jobs and safe families.

After all, chamber of commerce type conservatives love nothing more than to opine on the great virtues of Texas. The low taxes, the low regulation, delightfully paired with a low investment in education, health care and really anything else that might be of use to their working-class citizens.

I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it's not in my mind at the time.

Prime Minister, I see you've already mastered the essential craft of the European politician, namely, the ability to say one thing in this chamber and a very different thing to your home electorate.