Members demand MPs live where they serve, and want cyclists schooled

The day's loudest voice was also its simplest: members overwhelmingly want MPs to live in the constituency they represent. Even the Yes camp could not leave well alone, with the best-respected case pushing for a five-year minimum. The No side stayed unmoved, arguing that nothing about living in an area makes you a better MP.

The verdicts

The rest of the day was a run of comfortable wins, and a few of them came with caveats. Members backed a compulsory safety course for cyclists, though supporters and opponents alike kept pining for the old cycling proficiency test. They also backed HMRC giving every UK billionaire their own tax manager, with Yes voters seeing a cost-effective check and No voters doubting one civil servant's chances against a billionaire's advisers.

On housing, members comfortably rejected priority for young married couples in social housing. The top-rated case wanted allocation to rest on need, not on approved lifestyle choices.

A cluster of questions won comfortably but came with qualifications. Members voted to ban trail hunting, though the sharpest exchange was over whether a ban is needed when lawbreakers could simply be prosecuted. They also backed Parliament investigating the clash between Nigel Farage and a Lib Dem MP at the State Opening, even though the most-respected argument of all was a No: we have all seen the video. And they judged the government right to advise every household to keep three days of emergency food and water, with many Yes voters sounding more like critics of how it was handled than of the advice itself.

Last, and by the day's closest result, members voted against changing the national anthem from God Save the King. It was still a comfortable win, but hardly a rapturous one: the most-respected No case came from an atheist who finds it a bit daft and would not swap it just for the sake of it.

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