shut down in the House of Commons for his slovenly appearance over Zoom. In a debate yesterday, Deputy speaker Dame Eleanor Laing - in a move worthy of internet heroine Jackie Weaver - took one look at Gullis’s nondescript sweater and deemed it unworthy of such an official set-up. “We now go to….no, I don’t think we do go to Stoke-on-Trent, the honourable gentleman has to be dressed as if he were here in the chamber,” said Laing.
A while later, presumably after a frantic scuffle with the ironing board and fiddle to perfect the Half-Windsor, Gullis appeared suitably chastened in shirt, tie and grey suit jacket.
Our parliamentary Miranda Priestley gave her sartorial nod of approval. “I observe that the honourable gentleman is now properly.
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