PMQs and Chill
HoC
11.30 am: Scotland Questions
12.00 pm: PMQs
Opposition Day Debate - Subject to be announced
Adjournment - Cross-examination of vulnerable witnesses
Other
- The Chilcot Report is finally published today. The Guardian has a handy list of the main people involved. There'll be a statement by Sir John Chilcot at 11am.
- Jeremy Corbyn still hasn't resigned (or been properly challenged for that matter). He stubbornly published an updated list of the new Shadow Cabinet, consisting of the only people he could find who hadn't resigned yet, I imagine.
- Stephen Crabb pulled out of the leadership race and endorsed May. He came in fourth, Fox was fifth and got eliminated in the first round. May looks to have it in the bag.
- Ken Clarke had some not-so-nice things to say about May and Gove.
- UKIP and the Green Party are also looking for a new leader. Fun times all around.
- James Cleverly sang part of the American national anthem in the Commons yesterday:
Click to view"It was an incident in the oft-forgotten conflict between Great Britain and America in 1814, a few years before our centenary, that led to millions of Americans singing about my regiment every day. It is interesting that on 4 July-American independence day-we are reminded of that event. In the first verse of their national anthem “The Star-Spangled Banner” are the following lines, and if you will forgive me, I think it is only fair that I give them my best rendition:
“And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there”.
Now, I have been told that in order to sing in the Chamber one requires a music and entertainment licence, but as that was neither musical nor entertaining I think I got away with it. The rockets that provided the “red glare” immortalised in the American national anthem were the Congreve rockets fire by the Rocket Troop of the Royal Horse Artillery, and I think that is pretty cool." (x)