The Reformer
Changing the system from inside it, principle turned into change.
John Bercow reads as The Reformer, a leader who used an inherited institution's own rules to redistribute power within it. As Speaker from 2009 to 2019, he dramatically expanded the use of urgent questions, forcing ministers to the despatch box and strengthening backbench scrutiny of government.
“You need to write out a thousand times, "I will behave myself at Prime Minister’s Questions".”
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“You are an incorrigible delinquent at times. Behave yourself, man!”
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“It’s a point so blindingly obvious that only an extraordinarily clever and sophisticated person could fail to grasp it.”
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