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Bercow Bows Out

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Five times the Speaker became the story

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A retrospective look at John Bercow's ten years as speaker of the House of Commons.

As John Bercow bows out after ten years as speaker of the House of Commons, BBC Parliament revisits the career of a modernising but polarising figure.

He is one of the most controversial figures to have sat in the speaker’s chair in the House of Commons. As John Bercow bows out after ten years as speaker, BBC Parliament revisits the career of a modernising but polarising figure.

See the teenage Bercow’s Question Time debut, not in the Commons but on the TV programme. And re-live the former Tory MP’s clashes with ministers as he’s accused of bias and of bending the rules to try to stop Brexit. 

With more Commons archive, Bercow Bows Out offers a chance to re-live some of his favourite unique phrases, whether he’s advising an MP to search for ‘a soothing medicament’ or accusing others of ‘chuntering from a sedentary position’.


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