Chris Bryant: what did he do?
Politics has come to a pretty pass when Chris Bryant pulling faces at the Speaker is more interesting than Prime Minister’s Questions!
That’s what appears to have happened today (December 9).
During the weekly exchange between Boris Johnson and Labour leader Keir Starmer, Speaker Lindsay Hoyle halted proceedings and addressed Bryant:
Labour MP, Chris Bryant, flees the chamber to avoid an admonishment by the Speaker. pic.twitter.com/5yIlOoc8uG
— Daniel Invictus (@DannyInvictus) December 9, 2020
It seems Bryant had left the chamber but returned later, standing next to the Speaker’s chair for a hushed discussion, at the end of which, Hoyle was heard saying, “Mr Bryant I think we need this conversation later.”
Bryant shrugged. Some say he was heard saying, “Fine.” And then he left the chamber.
Speculation about what it was that Bryant actually did to cause such ire in the Speaker has been rife:
#PMQs needs VAR so we can find out what Chris Bryant did.
— here we go (@BigbigGull) December 9, 2020
I find MPs laughing hysterically at Johnson's snipes at Starmer more offensive than anything Chris Bryant could have done. Is Brexit and Covid funny now? Answer the fucking questions! #PMQs
— 𝙈𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙨 𝘽𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙡𝙚 (@mavisbickle) December 9, 2020
Some of the news websites are claiming that Bryant’s offence was simply standing in front of a door.
According to Politics Home,
One backbencher who was sat in the Commons said the row was about where Bryant was standing, allegedly in front of a door that had been left open for ventilation.
The MP said: “The speaker told him to move and he wouldn’t. They then had a face pulling and finger pointing contest.”
If true, it is a shame. Bryant’s reputation would have soared if he had been pulling faces at Johnson, as this now-deleted tweet indicates:
It reads: “Good to see Chris Bryant chased out of the House by the Speaker for pulling a slightly quizzical face which was clearly putting the Prime Minister off from telling his intergalactic lies.”
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