Speaker clinging on to job as 33 MPs sign no-confidence motion after Commons Gaza vote descends into row

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An SNP opposition day starts with a row over Sir Lindsay Hoyle's decision to select a Labour amendment and ends with a mass walkout of MPs.

Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has apologised to MPs after the chamber descended into chaos around a motion calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Wednesday was designated as an opposition day for the SNP, which chose to debate the Israel-Hamas war - and sought to persuade MPs to back its calls for an immediate halt to the fighting.

She said the decision of Sir Lindsay to select the Labour amendment had 'undermined the confidence' of MPs in procedures, 'raised temperatures in this House on an issue where feelings are already running high' and 'put honourable and right honourable members in a more difficult position'.

 

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