WATCH: “Parliament is a better place without John Bercow” – Jenrick
He adds that he wouldn’t offer the former speaker a peerage, as he responds to comments made by Dawn Butler.
He adds that he wouldn’t offer the former speaker a peerage, as he responds to comments made by Dawn Butler.
Butler claims the fact that Bercow is yet to receive a peerage ‘is also a form of bullying’.
The ConservativeHome columnist said that rather than a “civilised discussion” it “was about closing me down. I decided it wasn’t worth hanging around.”
Corbyn says of the Prime Minister his “vivid imagination seems to have taken over from his memory”.
“If we are brave…we can make a huge success of this venture for Britain, for our European friends and for the world”.
The Foreign Secretary on the prospect of the EU demanding a role for the court in a future trade deal.
“We were held responsible for every failure…this was the main problem. But the EU is like a miracle – almost impossible.”
“The direction of travel of the European Union on economic has been challenging neo-liberalism.”
And he says that UK ambassadors reportedly being told not to sit alongside their EU counterparts “comes across as a bit petty”.
The Brexit Party will continue as an insurance policy “in case things go wrong”. And there will be “a new think-tank called Brexit Watch”.
“He told one of my colleagues in the House of Commons that emphatically there would not be checks.”
“Labour has a problem – and it’s partly because the structure of our vote has been changing over ten years.”
[Checks are] “directly in conflict not only with the Withddrawal Agreement but with undertakings in the Political Declaration”.
“The most important thing to say tonight is that this is not an end but a beginning. This is the moment when the curtain goes up on a new act in our national drama.”
Well, it only took the best part of four years, two elections, two Prime Ministerial changes – and over 40 resignations.