QUENTIN LETTS: Mount Hoyle erupted! Dark smoke started rising, then the top of the Speaker’s head shot hundreds of feet in the air

Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle angrily rebuked the Government after Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh missed a Commons statement on the Jackdaw gas field. His outburst highlighted his view that announcing the decision to newspapers before informing MPs, then sending a junior minister in her place, showed disrespect to Parliament.

The article says Fahnbulleh was in Aberdeen for a photo opportunity, while Michael Shanks delivered the statement. Hoyle called her conduct “shameful” and “immense discourtesy”, interrupting Shanks’ attempted apology with a sarcastic remark about Aberdeen taking priority over elected MPs. The account is written in a highly theatrical, critical style.