Senior ministers launched a furious attack on the Speaker of the Commons this evening, accusing him of breaking parliamentary protocol to help Labour avoid a rebellion over Gaza.

In a serious challenge to Sir Lindsay Hoyle’s authority Penny Mordaunt, the leader of the Commons, suggested he had undermined his independence and “inserted himself” into political row in a way that had broken “longestablished” parliamentary conventions.

Hoyle was forced to apologise to MPs, saying: “It was never my intention for it to end up like this.”

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