By Quentin Letts UPDATED: 02:28 EST, 6 July 2011 Company, atten-SHUN! Labour MPs leapt to attention in the Commons yesterday afternoon when it came to a Standing Order 24 motion on the Murdoch newspapers’ alleged nefarious doings. Any Sergeant Major would have been proud to call that lot his platoon. One minute they were on their bottoms. The next they were ramrod straight on their pins. A rare parliamentary procedure, the SO 24. It calls for MPs to indicate their approval for an urgent debate by standing, rather than the usual shouting or voting in a lobby. The charge: A private detective working for the News of the World is accused of hacking into Milly Dowler's voicemail after she went missing
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Battle between Parliamentarians and the Press is usually knockabout stuff. But this time there is genuine outrage among MPs at the idea that a murdered girl's phone was hacked
Political bravery being in large part a question of fashion, it would be a surprise to hear anyone today stand up for the @placeholder organisation, or indeed for the printed press.