thank you, let's go back to the chamber, i believe hilary benn l the chamber, i believe hilary benn wasjust and have a listen to what's being said. report of being non—says, beneath contempt, rubbish. deranged, those are the words that have been used. and especially when it is a blatant attempts to undermine the very democratic system that we are sent here to uphold and has already been said, when the committee is attacked for doing itsjob by a member, and ourformer member, it is us as mps who are also being attacked. and the other thing that worries me about this, and i think should worry all of us, is that this type of conduct that we have seen from mrjohnson is all too reminiscent of what is going on as we speak on the other side of the atlantic ocean because people look at what he has said and done. they see what mr trump is doing over there, and they see the similarities, which is here are two people who are trying to trash our institutions and our democracy in the process will stop and that is very different from expressing disagreement with the judgment of the privileges committee. a

although dennis skinner, hilary benn, margaret beckett were really kind and generous to me.some others, you know, really spent some time with me, me earnestly asking question after question. i went on a parliamentary delegation with ken clarke and we became quite good friends. and he was he gave me some of the best advice i've ever had in politics. such as? well, one thing that stuck with me is neverjudge success in politics in one day, one week, one month, because too many people feel that they're not being noticed today and get insecure. but just leave it. see how you're doing at the end of the week, at the end of the month, the end of the year. and he then turned to me and said, well, i was elected to the house of commons the year you were born. i can do it over the decades, he said, because there is ebbs and flows and if you look at people who are the same intake as you or same age or whatever, and they're suddenly being talked about and they're being thrust forward, he said. never get insecure because just keep doing what you do in your own way. and politics has a funny