Speaker

People Are 'Suspicious And Despairing' Of The Political System

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 06.07.2012 | UK Politics

Commons Speaker John Bercow delivered a stinging verdict on the coalition in an interview for Sky News, suggesting that the reason why the local elect...

Taxpayers' 'Fleeced' Over £30,000-A-Year Bill To Rent Fig Trees For MPs

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 23.02.2012 | UK Politics

The £30,000-a-year bill for renting a dozen fig trees for an MPs' office block has "horrified" Commons Speaker John Bercow. Bercow accepted the ta...

Order! Order! Prime Minister's Questions Celebrates 50 Years

Huffington Post UK | Sam Hunter | Posted 21.12.2011 | UK Politics

Prime Minister's Questions celebrates its 50th anniversary next Monday. Unique among the world's parliaments, PMQs offers a raucous insight into the t...

The Speaker's Key Moments

The Huffington Post | Chris Wimpress | Posted 02.09.2011 | UK Politics

Since taking the chair two years ago the Speaker of the House of Commons has introduced some big changes to the way the Chamber is run, and upset a fe...