Who is Lindsay Hoyle, the Commons speaker embroiled in the Gaza ceasefire vote row?

Commons speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has found himself at the centre of a political storm this week following his controversial and unprecedented decision to allow MPs to vote on a Labour amendment to the SNP’s Gaza ceasefire motion.

Hoyle claims to allow the “widest possible range of options” to be considered. In an unlikely union, manytowards his former party.