Overview

• MPs from multiple parties have called for stricter enforcement of Commons rules on heckling and a formal review of microphone protocols.
• Reform UK leader Nigel Farage was repeatedly drowned out by Independent MP Iqbal Mohamed’s heckles as he pressed the prime minister on UK–France border controls.
• Reform MP Lee Anderson raised a point of order, accusing Mohamed’s interruptions of making Farage inaudible and urging Speaker Lindsay Hoyle to intervene.
• Speaker Lindsay Hoyle admonished MPs to show respect and tolerance in debates, warning that chamber behavior influences public confidence in Parliament.
• Reform UK denounces the bench’s shouts as deliberate silencing, while Labour defends its MPs’ interruptions as a legitimate challenge to Farage’s border security stance.