The former Speaker’s rages, and the actions of those who condoned them, will resonate with so many who endure management by fear
His fists were bunched and trembling, his eyes popping, his body physically shaking with fury.
For more than a quarter of an hour he ranted, loudly enough to be audible from the office next door. And the cause of this reported towering outburst from the Speaker of the Commons, John Bercow? Not some constitutional outrage perpetrated by a government riding roughshod over due process; not even the high stakes of the parliamentary battle over Brexit, which made him a hero to so many remainers. According to a withering report from an independent parliamentary appeals panel this week, which deemed him both a bully and a “repeatedly dishonest” witness, he thought the clerk of the House, Lord Lisvane, had put a paper on the agenda for an upcoming meeting without his knowledge.
