here's james landdale to take us through proceedings. here,s in members lobby, feast your ice. we don't get a chance to film in here very often. then, at about 2:30 or so behind these closed doors, an mp called allen williams who has basically been around any longer than anybody else, will stand up and invite those to say a few words. the speech is over. now, it's time for a vote. m.p.less file behind, put an x next to your name, and then put the paper into the ballot box. counting takes about an hour, and the result is announced on the floor of the chamber. now, if no candidate gets more than half the votes, what happens is this. whichever candidate came last, he drops out. whoever got less than 33, they drop out. then you have a smaller field and another election. you go round and round until eventually somebody gets more than 50% of the vote. so you've been elected speaker. you've been dragged to your chair in memory of a few predecessors who have had their heads chopped off. then you have to come up here to get the queen's blessing. you come up here, speaker elect, and then