After MPs were summoned to the Lords to hear the Queen’s Speech, Labour MP Dennis Skinner said: “Jubille year, double-dip recession, what a start.”

His comments did not go down well though, with many objecting to his timing and use of the opportunity to voice his opinions, which were greeted with jeers and cries of “|shame’”.

He does have a point though.

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