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

Mount Hoyle erupted seconds after the end of Prime Minister’s Questions. It was one of the most volcanic discharges the Commons has known.

One moment the Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, was presiding in an avuncular manner over the last dribblings of a forgettable PMQs at which backbench MPs kept raising constituents’ medical complaints. Please, this is parliament, not a community clinic. Andy Burnham did his best to sound interested in the various ailments but there is only so much an Englishman can do when asked about womb problems.

Sparrows played in the trees. A gentle breeze blew through the palm trees. Despite the

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