the riot act

Mr Cummings urged Mr Johnson to reshuffle his "feral" and "useless" team to prevent political "mayhem", and to "read them the riot act".

“But we do have to read him the Constitution — it is like reading him the riot act.”

Mr Cummings urged Mr Johnson to reshuffle his "feral" and "useless" team to prevent political "mayhem", and to "read them the riot act".

She sang with Muppets, talked with the aliens and read the riot act to Philip Seymour Hoffman.

He added that the "idiocy" of Mr Hancock's response, as well as then-attorney general Suella Braverman, risked undermining Covid laws, adding: "I'm ready to read the riot act as required."