Tag: John Bercow

• Monday, November 4th 2019 - 09:20 UTC

  Eight hopefuls for Speaker of Commons Bercow chair

  

  British MPs will this Monday select the new speaker of the House of Commons, once an unremarkable event but one now charged with significance following the previous occupant's role in Brexit.

• Thursday, October 31st 2019 - 09:20 UTC

  House of Commons “order order” Speaker heading for the Lords: successor will be elected Monday

  

  Speaker John Bercow is set to shout “order order” for the last time in the House of Commons as his 10-year reign as Speaker comes to an end. He will preside over the business in the chamber one final time.

• Tuesday, October 22nd 2019 - 09:44 UTC

  Another Brexit vote this Tuesday; Speaker Bercow shot down Johnson's Monday attempt

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson brushed aside yet another Brexit setback on Monday and sought again to ram through his EU divorce deal in time for next week's deadline. House of Commons speaker John Bercow shot down Johnson's second attempt on Monday to get MPs to sign off on his revised EU withdrawal terms.

• Monday, October 21st 2019 - 09:53 UTC

  Johnson wants Parliament to vote “yes” or “no” on his Brexit deal on Monday

  

  Parliament must be given “a straight up-and-down vote” on the PM's Brexit deal, No 10 says, after MPs delivered a major blow to his strategy on Saturday. Boris Johnson was forced by law to send a letter asking the EU for a new delay on Brexit but did not sign it.

• Tuesday, September 24th 2019 - 17:14 UTC

  Supreme Court rules suspending Parliament “unlawful”; calls for Johnson to resign; PM insists with fresh election

  

  Britain's Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that a decision by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to suspend parliament in the run-up to Brexit was “unlawful”, saying it was “void and of no effect”. The 11 judges of the country's highest court were unanimous in their verdict, which they said meant parliament could now immediately reconvene.

• Tuesday, September 10th 2019 - 09:00 UTC

  House speaker makes it official: Berkow stepping down after ten years on Oct. 31

  

  John Bercow, the speaker of Britain's House of Commons, officially announced on Monday that he would step down within weeks, amid criticism by Brexit hardliners who say he has twisted parliamentary rules to undermine them.

• Monday, September 2nd 2019 - 09:32 UTC

  Tens of thousands in UK cities protest the suspension of parliament

  

  Tens of thousands of protesters hit the streets across the UK on Saturday to show their opposition to government moves to close parliament ahead of the Brexit deadline on October 31.

• Monday, September 2nd 2019 - 06:40 UTC

  Petition calling to stop UK Parliament suspension has collected 1.4 million signatures

  

  An online petition calling to stop the UK Parliament being suspended until Brexit has been delayed or cancelled has garnered more than 1,4 million signatures. “Parliament must not be prorogued or dissolved unless and until the Article 50 period has been sufficiently extended or the UK's intention to withdraw from the EU has been cancelled,” the document read.

• Thursday, July 25th 2019 - 07:41 UTC

  Standing ovation in Parliament as Theresa May left Commons for the last time as prime minister

  

  British lawmakers gave outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May a standing ovation as they applauded her out of the House of Commons chamber after her final, at times emotional, appearance as leader on Wednesday.

• Monday, April 1st 2019 - 05:59 UTC

  Tories unite to warn Theresa May to forget a snap election to overcome the Brexit gridlock

  

  Tory MPs are warning Theresa May they will resist any attempt by the Prime Minister to call a snap general election in a bid to end the Brexit crisis engulfing the party. MPs from both the pro-Brexit and pro-EU wings of the party warned they could face an electoral disaster if she goes to the country early.