the speaker, john bercow, agree to a request from the shadow education secretary angela rayner. will take place after prime minister's questions. angela rayner said time had been set aside on the 18th of april. but then, mr speaker, on april 18th, the prime minister announced her plans to go to the country in an early general election. that meant the debate was cancelled. audley, mr speaker, they have been determined not to grant the house about since that election, and it was the first secretary of state who called only two weeks ago for a national debate on tuition fees and student debt, but apparently that national debate will not include this house. both universities and thousands of students across the country are now uncertain about the rate of tuition fees that can be charged with neither government or opposition time being provided, we have no choice but to use standing order 24. so, mr speaker, 109 days since it was first promised by ministers, i ask leave the house for an emergency debate on their plans to raise tuition fees. the speaker accented that argument. i have

they will help john bercow to keep order in the commons.uty speaker, nigel evans, if he could pass on any tips to the new recruit. we do have a little booklet, and it contains the photographs and constituencies and names of every member of parliament. i think the trick for rosie is to do what i used to do which is start at the top left and work your way along the chamber and go back and mentally say the name of the person you are looking at. and if you can't get the name, then you look through the book, and have a look at the photograph and then start again. and just make sure that you remember the person's name. i used to do it even when i was in the tea room, and i used to look at mps, mentally i would say their names in my head. and if i couldn't get the name, i would go and get the book. and how do you deal with a rowdy chamber? labour mp ian austin found out in 2012. ian was shouting at george osborne as chancellor of the exchequer and he wouldn't let it go, so the usual "order! order!" just didn't work. and ijust stood up and i yelled

deep controversy has been stirred by the announcement of the speaker, john bercow, that he has no problemmber. whatever next? traditionalists have not been happy. the stakes were raised considerably when a minister made these remarks in the commons on monday. let mejust, before i go any further, say something i should have said at the outset, madam deputy speaker. there has been some debate over recent days in this chamber about sartorial standards, as you will know, madam deputy speaker. i ought to say, as a matter of courtesy, i will not be taking interventions from anyone who is not wearing a tie... laughter um, on whatever side of the house they sit. but as well as courtesy, i believe in generosity, and anyone that is sartorially challenged, or inadequate, i will provide a tie for. i do have a tie here, which i'm prepared to... and of course, i exclude from that lady members of the house, who i would hardly expect to dress in either my tie, one of their own or anyone else's. prompting this reaction on thursday. you were not in the chair on monday, and may not have heard the minister o

and finally, the speaker, john bercow, has quietly been relaxing the dress code in the house of commonsit was not essential for male mps to wear a tie. not to be outdone, one female mp took the opportunity of scottish questions to flag up her support for scotland's national women's football team as they prepared to face england's lionesses in the euro 2017 tournament. hannah bardell. thank you very much, mr speaker. i'd also like to put on my record the very best wishes of everyone on these benches for the scottish football team. i'm wearing the colours, i hope you don't mind. i used to play alongside two of scotland's national players at university. their career has obviously done better in football than mine. hannah bardell in praise of scotland's women's football team. and that's it from me for now, but do join me at the same time tomorrow for the last day of parliament before the summer recess. but for now, from me, alicia mccarthy, goodbye. hello there. there was still quite a lot of energy in the atmosphere, during wednesday afternoon some pretty intense thunderstorms broke out ac

six foot five, the spanish king, john bercow isn't.distinguished excellencies, rape the wood ladies and gentlemen. this is an extremely welcome case of third time lucky. your state visit and hence this occasion was deferred from march 2016 due to political events in spain and then once again from last month due to the election year. it must at one point have seemed that you were must at one point have seemed that you we re never must at one point have seemed that you were never destined to appear inside this parliament. i am very pleased, that you are unable to do so today. your arrival is in many ways a celebration of the relationship, the strong and vibrant relationship, the strong and vibrant relationship between our two countries. that relationship, that accord, has been utterly transformed over the last 50 years. it is because in large part that is absolutely no way in western europe that has seen so much change over the last half—century as spain has witnessed. you are now at the very heart of european affairs and a shining examp