Is John Bercow the right man to be Speaker?

John Bercow, the new Speaker of the House of Commons is disliked intenseley by many Conservatives, who accuse him of being a 'turncoat'. So was he voted in just to get on their nerves?

"It was bad enough that Labour couldn't take governing seriously; now it is determined to ensure that parliamentary institutions aren't taken seriously either," says Simon Heffer in The Daily Telegraph on the election for Commons Speaker.

I "couldn't care less" about John Bercow's "bizarre political journey" from "what he thought was ultra-Right to what some of his colleagues think is the ultra-Left", but I do care that he is not "remotely serious" and that 322 MPs thought it "frightfully funny to elect him" because it would annoy the Tories.

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.