While Susanna Reid and David Beckham were willing to queue for hours to pay their respects to the late Queen, Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby were pilloried for using their supposed celebrity status – what the This Morning press office was later to call “working” – to be accorded swift access to Westminster Hall.
Less well documented was how the Tory Brexiteer Mark Francois was also throwing his weight about. The Sunday Times claimed over the weekend he had been “moaning” about how he’d had to choose between taking his researchers or his relatives into Westminster Hall with him.
