and jess phillips, you equally phlegmatic about this?ility, is it people working together for the common good, or is it those who understand that using a nice voice and saying please and thank you is the way to appear at least civil? so i suppose we'll have to wait and see, but again i shan't be losing much sleep. do you think it is effective or important in politics, does civility get things done? it does, it definitely does, and there has to be an amount of cross—party working. it was vastly more important in the time of a hung parliament, and it had much more power in the time of a hung parliament in order to get things done — and i don't mean about the substantive, the brexit issue, i mean the other things parliamentarians are working on, whether they get talked about or not. but people will have seen you over the years being slightly less than civil, challenging theresa may, and challenging john bercow? i suppose my style is combative. i hope not too uncivil, but i have never sworn at anyone in the chamber or anything like that. but