Ed to Dave: Do you think we should stand up?

“Do you think we should stand up?” Ed Miliband says to David Cameron at the end of the Queen’s address in Westminster Hall. “Yep,” the PM appears to say back. They spring up and for a short moment the two of them are the only ones standing.

Earlier, there will have been people looking at the Queen’s face in close-up as the Speaker described her as a “Kaleidoscope Queen” who may wonder if she entirely enjoyed the compliment.

Michael Ellis, the Tory backbencher who organised the whip-round for a commemorative stained glass window, is now known as “Sir” Michael to colleagues in the tea-rooms. He actually raised in excess of the £85,000 needed to pay for the window – not clear where the extra few thousand is going. Most MPs seem to have put in £100 but that means some put in substantially more.

Earlier I bumped into Beefeaters and military folk in plumed hats getting off a bus and strolling into Parliament. I was struck by how the tourists around me wandered straight past them without a second look, perhaps imagining that’s how British folk dress when the sun’s out.

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