FIRST it was former Scottish MP Natalie McGarry excitedly wearing her wedding dress in the Commons chamber, now the SNP’s Hannah Bardell has turned up in a Scotland football jersey. What next? Tommy Sheppard donning Bermuda shorts?

Ms Bardell, the champion for Livingston, who is normally a model of deportment, wore the national team’s shirt out of deference to Scotland's opening match against England in the Uefa Women's Euro 2017 finals in the Netherlands.

But one has to ask are MPs taking the law-making chamber seriously enough? One female MP, who shall remain nameless, turned up recently in what looked like a sweatshirt.

After Speaker Bercow’s ruling that male MPs no longer are required to wear a tie, one is forced to ask, where will it end? T-shirts and flip-flops?

Sadly, gentle reader, it might be left to members of Her Majesty’s Press to maintain standards; as usual.

Talking of Mr Sheppard, he earlier took the lead for the SNP at Scottish Questions and also mentioned the Scottish women’s football team, although he did not do a Bardell but was wearing a natty shirt and tie.

Mr Sheppard? Where, I hear you ask, was Ian Blackford?

The SNP’s Westminster leader has delegated the role in Scottish Questions to his Edinburgh colleague, who challenged David Mundell on public sector pay restraint. Yet opening your attack with the phrase “sense of grievance” is only likely to see Tories mumbling: “Here we go again.”

The Scottish Secretary suggested that when Mr Blackford admitted he was something of a “reluctant” leader in, er, a certain newspaper interview, he did not think he was so reluctant to “downgrade” Scottish Questions. Nationalists rolled their eyes in disbelief.

Later, as Jezza took on Thezza for the last time this session, the chief comrade faced, after the week the PM has had, an open goal.

With the Tory squabblers sitting in front of him, Mr C denounced their “bickering and backbiting” and focused on the Chancellor’s alleged – and not denied – comment that he believed public sector workers were “overpaid”.

The PM praised public sector workers for their hard work and sacrifice at which Labour MPs shouted out: "Give them a pay rise!"

A stern-faced Mother Theresa stood her ground and insisted that while Labour offered to throw around loads of money, raising taxes and piling up debt, it was the Tories, she insisted, who knew public services had to be paid for.

Jezza rose to note: “The PM doesn’t seem to have had a problem finding money paying for the DUP support.” Ah, the magic money tree.

It was noticeable after having another torrid weak, albeit not of her making, the Tory berserkers were cheering on their leader more energetically than normal so that when Thezza finally sat down after her bruising exchanges with the hairy Leftie she seemed the most contented.

But after the intense, nerve-shredding rollercoaster ride of the last few weeks both leaders could agree on one sentiment: bring on the summer holiday.