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A strong speaker is never going to win friends. Bercow had a different goal.
He does love the sound of his own voice but that’s not why Bercow spoke out.
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The speaker has been accused of overreach by blocking a third meaningful vote, but why did Theresa May presume she could bend parliamentary rules?
It was a controversial manoeuvre but MPs voted it through anyway.
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If it loses the key Brexit vote next week, the government will have just three days to come up with a plan B.
These two have failed to come up with a solution to this problem.
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We can’t agree what the ‘will of the people’ was in 2016, but these are the representatives they elected in 2017.
Anyone stepping to me, you’ll get burned,
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Does the holder of the key have the right to lock the door on the leader of the free world?
Angus Roberston is making a play for new rights.
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Party leader Angus Robertson thinks his party should trump Labour, since Jeremy Corbyn no longer commands the confidence of his MPs.
The speakership has become so politicised in Australia that we’ve been blinded to the possibilities that having a truly independent Speaker might open up.
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By making the speakership a political gift of the party in power, Australia is missing a major opportunity for democratic renewal of its parliament.