sebzilla posted:

He's standind down as an MP and is a billion years old, so probably not.

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Sir Edward Leigh - Conservative
Chris Bryant - Labour
Eleanor Laing - Conservative and deputy Speaker
Peter Wishart - SNP

coffeetable posted:

the other side of being speaker is you aren't ever gonna be prime minister, so none of the MPs you see in the press are gonna go for it

CyberPingu posted:

Taken from BBC, those who have announced they are running so far:

Angry Lobster posted:

What was Bercow's history before being elected as Speaker? Was he a no-name too?

sebzilla posted:

Opposition benches are rammed. Is anything important happening after everyone's done fluffing Bercow's ego?

CyberPingu posted:

Yeah...they are all going on holiday

CyberPingu posted:

Yeah...they are all going on holiday

sebzilla posted:

Opposition benches are rammed. Is anything important happening after everyone's done fluffing Bercow's ego?

Heners_UK posted:

God damnit Bercow, there's more important things than not being run over by your own party because they like to see the splatter! Stay in the job until Brexit is defeated

Edit: yes I think he reads SA

sebzilla posted:

Aren't there meant to be urgent questions about whether or not it's ok for the PM to ignore laws?

sebzilla posted:

Aren't there meant to be urgent questions about whether or not it's ok for the PM to ignore laws?

OwlFancier posted:

if the tories stand a candidate against him in buckinghamshire they'll win

Julio Cruz posted:

Grieve has a question about legal advice over prorogation and also Yellowhammer, and then Corbyn has one on "the rule of law" which is presumably going to attempt to set out some consequences for Boris if he refuses to ask for an extension

Heners_UK posted:

A point well made, although can't we rely on Buckinghamshire to elect a good orator?

Failed Imagineer posted:

If it's anything like last day before school holidays, they've all been allowed bring their toys in, and they're going to build Scalextric for the evening

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One theory doing the rounds in Dublin is that Boris Johnson may pull a Northern Ireland only backstop out of bag at the last minute as a means of forcing a Brexit deal through parliament in between 17 October and 31 October.

The idea was mooted early on in Brexit talks but famously dropped after opposition from the DUP which accused Theresa May of trying to break up the union of the United Kingdom by creating regulatory checks down the Irish sea.

But Johnson’s proposal for an all-island agriculture zone is one of the key elements of the backstop and now that the DUP no longer has the leverage it had because of the changed arithmetic, some believe this is where the landing zone is.

Tesseraction posted:

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Tesseraction posted:

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Tesseraction posted:

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coffeetable posted:

not convinced by this. they take the backstop, brexit party blows up their right wing at the election

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A new law designed to stop the government forcing through a no-deal has reached the statute book.

The granting of royal assent for the legislation was announced by the Lord Speaker in the House of Lords, ahead of the suspension or prorogation of parliament.

The new Act requires a delay to Brexit beyond October 31 unless a divorce deal is approved or parliament agrees to leaving the EU without one by October 19.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has previously branded it the “surrender bill”, claiming it took away control of the UK’s negotiations with the EU by allowing parliament to block no-deal.

Downing Street has said the government will obey the law, but repeated that the PM would not be seeking another extension to the article 50 withdrawal process.

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OwlFancier posted:

He doesn't really have a choice, if the tories stand a candidate against him in buckinghamshire they'll win and he'll stop being speaker by default. This is actually the best way to ensure a decent speaker for the next parliament.