Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle battles on in face of calls by nearly 70 MPs for him to quit over Gaza vote chaos

Sir Lindsay Hoyle was urged to quit by the Scottish National Party over the Gaza vote chaos in Parliament as Rishi Sunak criticised his actions as “deeply concerning”.

But a number of senior Tories rallied around the Speaker and Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt did not back moves to oust the Speaker.

SNP leader in the Commons, Stephen Flynn, called on the Speaker to go after a SNP Opposition Day debate on the Middle East ended in mayhem on Wednesday evening.

Mr Flynn told the Speaker on Thursday: “It descended into farce because of the decision that you alone made to ignore the advice that was given to you by the clerks.”

Sir Lindsay has come under pressure amid accusations he helped Sir Keir Starmer avoid another damaging revolt over the Middle East issue by selecting Labour's amendment to the SNP motion.Mr Flynn stressed the decision had meant that the SNP had not been able to vote on its own motion for a Gaza ceasefire.

“That quite frankly is not acceptable,” he added.

“We do not on these benches believe that you