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Feel funny PMQs starting this late? It's happening because Parliament isn't back from its Christmas break until 14:30 GMT.
The question-and-answer session has taken place at mid-day on Wednesdays for decades now.
Today's session gets under way at 15:00 GMT.
It might have been even later, had the Hansard Society, set up to increase voter engagement, had had its way. Back in 2014 it recommended starting PMQs at a "peak" TV time on Wednesday, say 19:30, instead of its usual 12:00 slot.
Competing with the likes of Coronation Street, the idea was that the weekly toing and froing of then PM David Cameron and Labour leader Ed Miliband would bring Westminster rivalry to a whole new audience.
It never happened.
Feel funny PMQs starting this late? It's happening because Parliament isn't back from its Christmas break until 14:30 GMT.
The question-and-answer session has taken place at mid-day on Wednesdays for decades now.
Today's session gets under way at 15:00 GMT.
It might have been even later, had the Hansard Society, set up to increase voter engagement, had had its way. Back in 2014 it recommended starting PMQs at a "peak" TV time on Wednesday, say 19:30, instead of its usual 12:00 slot.
Competing with the likes of Coronation Street, the idea was that the weekly toing and froing of then PM David Cameron and Labour leader Ed Miliband would bring Westminster rivalry to a whole new audience.
It never happened.
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Its probably because it is the first sitting day of the week and, therefore, starts at 2.30pm which enables people who don't live in London to get to The House.
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Even earlier A P Herbert suggested having the debates and divisions on a kind of football pool lottery to increase the public's interest in Parliament.
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I doubt it as only a super computer would be able to answer all the likely questions.
As an aside I tend to watch the exchanges between the PM and Starmer then switch off
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