SIR - Monty Python would have made a brilliant sketch about it. The most crucial issue (since WW2 so we're told) ie Brexit, is pending, with the clock winding down fast, but all the MPs are going off for a fortnight's holiday! They're 'demob happy!'

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But, after turning PMQs into a pantomime knockabout, the PM's troops rise up, braying in mock anger because the leader of the opposition muttered something under his breath that wasn't audible, about their leader. Then, lip readers are brought in to fathom out what he said. It should have been: "She's not the PM...she's a very naughty girl!"

David Hornsby, West View Avenue, Wrose