1. Bickering with Boris
Boris the parrot, pictured
Boris and I don’t get on – if I want him to perch on my hand, he’ll try to nip me. I’m talking about my parrot, seen in this photo, not the PM!
He’s picked up a few of my phrases, like ‘point of order’, and sometimes startles passengers on the train by blurting out, ‘Lock the doors!’
My pets also include Betty, a Patterdale terrier [named after ex-Speaker Betty Boothroyd] and Maggie, an African sulcata tortoise, who’s got a hard shell and is not for turning.
2. Urgent info