Oh dear! Not the most dignified days in the Commons. The day ended in chaos, but more of that later. An early morning run and then a savage haircut - a hangover from my army days - began a rather damp day. Into the Commons where I ran through constituency business with my parliamentary team and then headed across to PCH for a private meeting with Robert Jenrick. Then to the Chamber for the weekly punch-up at PMQs. Starmer concentrated his fire on the Post Office scandal, clearly trying to pin the blame on Conservative ministers. The fact this scandal began in the Labour years appeared lost on him. During the questions, the PM refused to repeat Kemi Badenoch's claim that the former Post Office boss was lying when he said he was told to delay compensation to Horizon scandal victims. I then entertained our campaign manager, the charming Hayward Burt, to lunch, before having to rush off to attend two committees. I started in CR15 with the European Scrutiny Committee, before moving across to the Defence Committee at 1500. The former was taking evidence on retained EU law and how the UK had managed dealing with it since leaving the EU. We had three top witnesses. They were Professor Kenneth Armstrong (Professor of European Law, University of Cambridge), Dr Oliver Garner (Maurice Wohl Research Leader in European Rule of Law at Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, British Institute of International and Comparative Law) and Martin Howe KC (Barrister, 8 New Square). You can see this session on Parliament TV. At 1500, I crossed to CR8 to our Defence Committee, which was in its third and final evidence session dealing with procurement. Our witnesses were James Cartlidge MP, Minister for Defence Procurement, Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton KCB, Chief of the Air Staff, Lieutenant General Rob Magowan CB CBE, Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Financial and Military Capability), and Richard Berthon, Director Future Combat Air, Ministry of Defence. Again, you can see this on Parliament TV. Meanwhile, the SNP's debate on Gaza had started. But it was not until later when I turned on my TV at the end of the debate did I realise something was amiss. I dropped down to the Chamber, to find endless Points of Order being flung at Madam Deputy Speaker. In simple terms, the speaker had prioritised a Labour amendment over an SNP motion when it was their Opposition Day on the situation in Gaza. As it turned out, all three of the main Parties had put down their own amendments and, in an effort to allow each MP to vote the way they wanted, the Speaker had allowed all three. That was not procedure, however, further complicated when the Leader of the House got up and said the Government was not playing and withdrew from the debate, in effect. Again, procedure should then have seen the SNP's motion called first, but Madam Deputy Speaker stuck with Labour's and all hell broke loose. To add fuel to the fire, rumours swiftly spread that Labour had pressurised the Speaker into doing their bidding. As the chaos continued, I went to the Speaker's office and told his staff that he really should get into the Chamber to calm things down. He did eventually appear, but not before the poor Madam Deputy Speaker had been put through the ringer. Having been through all the Brexit hell with the previous Speaker, I thought I'd seen it all, but no. As I said, not the Commons's finest hour, but the Speaker said he was trying to be fair to all Parties over what is a highly emotive topic. And let's not forget, we had many pro-Palestinian protesters outside the Commons making their presence felt. Meanwhile, the Sun newspaper reported that our nuclear deterrent malfunctioned off Florida during a test fire. A statement about this is on my website. In other news, hospitals in England would be offered funding from April to introduce "Martha's rule", the NHS announced. And the King held his first audience with Prime Minister since his cancer diagnosis was announced.