If anyone, anyone at all (?) was confused, the speaker has his nose well into the trough, a man who disregards parliamentary conventions (pretty much all they have In the place of rules) to suit whoever is in power.
Commons Speaker’s £180k bill for first-class flights and hotels. One trip to a luxury Cayman Islands resort by Lindsay Hoyle cost the taxpayer nearly £23,000
http://archive.today/2025.03.04-165935/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/commons-speakers-180k-bill-for-first-class-flights-and-hotels-lr9cj8g9c (archived)