I thought the new speaker, John Bercow made a competent start today at his first PMQ’s. It can’t be easy knowing most of your party colleagues voted against you and the Labour party only voted for you cos’ they don’t want to get the blame if and when things go pear shaped again!

But he started to impose himself - cutting short a couple of MP’s that threatened to waffle on, calling for MP’s to be quite while people spoke etc, and in his post PMQ’s statement he has demanded that Ministers make statements to the Commons BEFORE varied radio and TV programmes. How will the spin doctors cope - we’ll see what happens when that dictat is tested.

Pity he can’t force people to answer questions properly, never mind one step at a time.