If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything, and it’s time for me to take my stand.

Instead, I stood for a while and watched him as he sat in his chair, behind his glass wall, one hand on his stick.

His authority over House Republicans has been undercut – first by Musk and then by Trumpov - just a few weeks before he stands for re-election as speaker of the House.

"All the things that they told me Christianity stood for? No longer matters," Maureen said.

Asato said this must be balanced with the right of reformed or wrongfully convicted individuals to stand for Parliament, and DBS checks would help provide the "transparency we need".