janet davey took her vows to the table?nal warm handshake from the speaker.|j disarmingly, sincerely and truly declare and a firm that i be faithful and bear true allegiance to her majesty queen elizabeth, her heirs and successors, according to law. janet davey, the member for lewisham east. and we finish where we started, with the house of lords. as peers defeated the government on the eu withdrawal bill, mps were discussing whether the lord should be abolished altogether. at least 170,000 people signed a petition on a referendum of getting rid of the lords. the debate was led a conservative paul scully, who voted for brexit. isjust not appropriate for brexit. isjust not appropriate for the upper house to be thwarting the will of the people, to be coming back and getting us to consider wrecking amendments can effectively, and a bill that was clearly within the manifesto and a bill that we need to get past in a timely fashion. if we are going to leave the eu in an orderly way. but there are no plans for a referendum. in par

labour's janet davey won the by—election with 50.2% of the vote.ut by the snp leader ian blackford at prime minister's questions. 0ne labour veteran wanted a little more clarity as to the exact nature of his punishment. well, as a bit of an expert on being thrown out... laughter. can ijust explain to you, mr speaker, that there are various ways of throwing people out? one is, obviously, everybody can follow. it's never happened in my case. secondly... secondly, it is possible for somebody, sent by the speaker's office to the room upstairs, which i inhabited, and he said to me, "on reflection," the speaker said, "you can stay." that's one difference. and the other is, sometimes you are barred from the house, but not from the building. so which was it? the speaker confirmed ian blackford had been excluded from the whole building. in fact, one of my colleagues later spotted him holed up in pret a manger. 0ther cafes are available. and that's all we've got time for. don't forget there's a round—up of each day in parliament every night at 11 o'clock on