Guest of honour John Bercow’s florid style had one guest at the Jami dinner on Monday noting down words to look up in the dictionary afterwards.

Here’s a taste of the Commons speaker in full flow: “I just want, with modest temerity, to say this to people here assembled if any of you here is thinking ‘Well, I want to support Jami, but if I were to proffer a substantial sum in its court, that would be regarded as vulgar, and inappropriate’, let me disabuse you of that notion straight away!”

Not a man who could find tweeting easy.