Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour lot are in the bad books with Speaker Lindsay Hoyle after details of the government’s Strategic Defence Review mysteriously appeared in several newspapers before the Prime Minister’s speech this morning. The Speaker was rather unimpressed with the whole thing – given he has had to remind Starmer’s army on multiple occasions that it is a breach of the ministerial code – and today tore into the PM’s party.

Blasting the leaks as ‘regrettable’, Hoyle dressed down the government benches:

The Prime Minister made a speech and held a press conference in Glasgow. In addition to other media appearances, this follows several days of media briefing. I am disappointed once again that the government appears to have breached the principle set out in paragraph 9.1 of the mi

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