Watch the moment Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle booted out a Conservative MP from the Commons during Prime Minister’s Questions this afternoon.
Richard Holden, who currently serves as Shadow Transport Secretary, was seen heckling Sir Keir Starmer in a rowdy rendition of the parliamentary debate.
Sir Lindsay Hoyle furiously ordered the MP out of the chamber after first handing the top Tory a warning over his raucous behaviour.
Mr Holden could then be seen making his way out of the chamber in a sheepish manner before his parliamentary colleagues.
In this week’s PMQs, the MP for Basildon and Billericay was first warned: “As Shadow Secretary for Transport, you’ll soon be getting the express train.”
Sir Keir then tittered after suggesting Mr Holden could be an upcoming defector to Reform, with a tumultuous clamour following his statement from both sides of the chamber.
“Those that shout loudest end up over there,” the Prime Minister said, waving over towards where Reform MPs reside.
Then, after a real furore took over the Westminster forum, Sir Lindsay doubled down on his warning, ejecting the MP from the arena for good.
Sir Lindsay Hoyle ejected Richard Holden from the chamber during PMQs
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“Mr Holden, I think you need to leave. I’ve had enough,” he ordered.
Sir Keir had spent a portion of PMQs dedicated to mocking his Tory counterpart over Robert Jenrick’s decision to join Reform UK as its sixth MP last Thursday after he was publicly sacked by Mrs Badenoch.
Sir Keir quipped: “They shout on a Wednesday and defect on a Thursday.”
Taking aim at Mrs Badenoch directly over Mr Jenrick’s switch, he added: “The loudest shouts used to be from the former Shadow Justice Secretary.
Mr Jenrick made his PMQs debut as a Reform UK MP today
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“We should take the note of who’s shouting most loudly this week,” the Prime Minister guffawed.
Mrs Badenoch fired back: “The Prime Minister wants to talk about defections. Let me tell him that when I had someone undermining my party, I sacked him.”
Redirecting aim at Sir Keir’s own leadership woes, she smiled: “We all know that if he sacked everyone undermining his party, his frontbench would be empty.”
Sir Keir responded: “She’s claiming strength. She read the guy’s defection letter and then at that point decided to sack him.
“What else was she going to do, correct the typos? She should have sacked him when he made disgraceful comments about faces in Birmingham.”
Today, Tory-turned-turquoise Mr Jenrick made his PMQs debut as a Reform MP, supported by the likes of fellow MPs Lee Anderson and Richard Tice in the chamber.
Since the Newark MP’s dramatic departure from the Conservatives, Mrs Badenoch repeatedly thanked Reform leader Nigel Farage for doing her “spring cleaning” by welcoming Mr Jenrick to Reform’s ranks.
Meanwhile, Mr Farage expressed his gratitude to the Tory leader for his “late Christmas present”.
The Tory leader, who has since been praised for her “decisive” action, sacked her ex-leadership rival after a “secret” plot to defect became apparent.
But Mr Jenrick was not left long without a party, joining Mr Farage’s bid to “fix broken Britain” within six hours of being sacked from the Conservative frontbench.