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Labour and SNP compliment Penny Mordaunt on coronation appearance

Labour and SNP compliment Penny Mordaunt on coronation appearance

Shadow Commons leader Thangam Debbonaire paid tribute to Penny Mordaunt’s Coronation work.

“She was a symbol of solemnity, the first woman to have ever presented the Jewelled Sword of Offering to a British Monarch,” she told MPs, “she was a credit to this House as our representative”.

She added: “It was an even bigger achievement, come to think of how long she must have been awake the previous night counting all those Tory losses [in the 2023 local elections]”.

The SNP’s Deidre Brock said Ms Mordaunt had “commendable upper body strength,” but asked if the sword she was carrying was “the Sword of Damocles”.

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