Speaker Lindsay Hoyle rages at Labour's 'shameful' move to brief the media on Jackdaw gas field before MPs

Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh skipped the chamber for a photo opportunity in Aberdeen when she was due to make a Commons statement. Junior minister Michael Shanks was sent to stand in for her. The approval had already been splashed across that morning's newspapers. Sir Lindsay exploded seconds after Prime Minister's Questions ended, branding the treatment of MPs 'appalling'.

Fahnbulleh is rumoured to have hated being forced to let Jackdaw go ahead.

The green light came after long Labour dithering over fears of upsetting the Greens.

Hoyle insists the House, not the press, must hear government decisions first.