Tories bid to depose Speaker Bercow after Commons revolt

[BooScout]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49624334

Tories bid to depose Speaker Bercow after Commons revolt

The Conservative Party plans to stand a candidate against Speaker John Bercow for his role in allowing MPs to take control of the Commons agenda.

Business secretary Andrea Leadsom accused the Speaker in the Mail on Sunday of "flagrant abuse" of process.

Breaching convention, the party plans to oppose Mr Bercow in his Buckingham constituency at the next election.

Formerly a Tory, Mr Bercow gave up his party affiliation when he took on the impartial role.

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[mwooldri]

1. I guess the Tories want to lose 500 quickly...

£500 is the deposit that candidates pay to file to run for election. If they don't get enough votes they lose their deposit.

If the Tories do put up a candidate, then expect the other parties to campaign on behalf of the speaker.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. I doubt they'd do that badly

There will be enough rabid Brexiteers to get them the 5% necessary, though not enough to win (this site reckons the constituency was 51% Remain, 49% Leave, which has to be estimated from local council results that are known; the area it's in, Aylesbury Vale, was 50.5% Leave, 49.5% Remain).