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You need to write out a thousand times, "I will behave myself at Prime Minister’s Questions".
— John Bercow
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John Bercow
politician, political scientist
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John Simon Bercow is a British former politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 2009 to 2019, and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Buckingham between 1997 and 2019. A member of the Conservative Party prior to becoming speaker, he was the first MP since Selwyn Lloyd in 1971 to be elected speaker without having been a deputy speaker. After resigning as speaker in 2019 and opting not to seek re-election as an MP in the 2019 general election, Bercow left Parliament. In 2021, he joined the Labour Party but was suspended in 2022.
All Quotes by John Bercow
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You are an incorrigible delinquent at times. Behave yourself, man!
— John Bercow
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It’s a point so blindingly obvious that only an extraordinarily clever and sophisticated person could fail to grasp it.
— John Bercow
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I do strongly believe myself that members of the government who sit in the House of Lords should be accountable to the elected House because otherwise there is a democratic deficit, and that is wrong.
— John Bercow
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Fairness is not about statistical equality.
— John Bercow