Wednesday, January 19, 2011
The Importance of the Speaker
John Bercow is a controversial and important Speaker, whose own reforms in the Commons are aimed at improving government scrutiny. His speech to the Institute for Government also covered his opposition to the reduction in the number of MPs. I have blogged further about him here.
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