WATCH: Gavin Williamson left red-faced after being heckled in the Commons by his own phone
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That unusual sound you can hear is Theresa May laughing her head off.
The Prime Minister has had little to cheer in recent weeks, as her party continues to tear itself apart over Brexit.
Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has been a particular nuisance, at one point even warning that he could bring her down unless she agrees to stump up more cash for the military.
So Mrs May will no doubt have enjoyed her Cabinet colleague's discomfort when the voice-activated Siri mechanism on his iPhone accidentally went off when he said "Syria" at the Despatch Box.
"I do apologise for that," an embarrassed Mr Williamson said after frantically searching for the malfunctioning device and switching it off.
"It is very rare that you are heckled by your own mobile phone. But on this occasion, it is a new parliamentary convention without a doubt."
"If I may proceed, Mr Speaker, without the help and support of Siri…”
In an attempt to hide his embarassment, Mr Williamson later tweeted that he would need to get advice from his 13-year-old daughter on how to work his phone in future.
But the intervention has poured fuel on the fire of a wild conspiracy theory that suggests Number 10 uses the robot assistant to feed lines to Tory ministers, after Jo Johnson’s Siri app also interrupted him during a Question Time appearance earlier this year.
Of course, the fact that Syria and Siri sound similar enough to trigger the phones voice detection is a cover-up for what is blatantly an MI5 plot.
