MPs on the justice select committee were supposed to be going to South Africa - to find out more about prisons - on a five-day trip next week.
It’s purely a “co-incidence” that they would have been there for the Lions tour of SA, according to officials. Naturally.
But sport-loving MPs may now be rather unhappy that the trip has been cancelled because of the Speaker’s election.
Jim Pickard and Alex Barker, FT Westminster correspondents, share the latest news and gossip from the UK's political scene.
Alex Barker has been an FT political correspondent since July 2007. He joined the paper in 2005, after working in current affairs television.
Jim Pickard joined the FT's lobby team in January 2008, having been a regional correspondent, assistant UK news editor and property correspondent.
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