Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle today ordered an urgent probe into voting lobby scuffles which plunged Liz Truss’s embattled premiership into new peril.
Sir Lindsay, who has made restoring respect and good conduct in Parliament a key plank of his role, told MPs he had asked the Serjeant at Arms and other officials to investigate allegations surrounding incidents in the Commons on Wednesday night.
In a statement to MPs, he said: "I wish to say something about the reports of behaviour in the division lobbies last night.
