How do you explain to a child what MPs spent over an hour discussing yesterday afternoon? Indeed, how did Peter Kyle manage it? Halfway through the debate on sexual harassment, the Labour MP for Hove brought a party of primary school children into the gallery and attempted to explain to them what was going on.

As he pointed out the Speaker and the prime minister, MPs were debating what Harriet Harman (Lab, Camberwell & Peckham) called the “toxic atmosphere of sleazy, sexist or homophobic banter” in which they work and Matthew Offord (C, Hendon) had just described another MP as “utterly foul”. They heard Chris Bryant (Lab, Rhondda) speak emotionally of a friend who had been raped and Adrian Bailey (Lab, West Bromwich West) mention