LONDON (Reuters) -John Bercow, the previous speaker of Britain’s House of Commons decrease home of parliament, will likely be banned for all times from holding a parliamentary pass after an impartial panel discovered he was a “serial bully” of his staff.
Bercow, whose shouts of “order, order” received him fame across the globe throughout years of parliamentary struggles over Brexit, was discovered to have repeatedly bullied his employees with “behaviour which had no place in any office”, the Independent Expert Panel mentioned on Tuesday.
The panel, which adjudicates on complaints towards lawmakers in parliament, additionally mentioned his proof confirmed he was “a serial liar”.
“His behaviour fell very far beneath that which the general public has a proper to anticipate from any member of parliament,” the panel mentioned in a press release.
“The respondent’s conduct was so critical that, had he nonetheless been a Member of Parliament, we might have decided that he must be expelled by decision of the House (of Commons). As it’s, we suggest that he ought to by no means be permitted a pass to the Parliamentary property.”
Bercow stepped down in October 2019 after 10 years within the Speaker’s chair, from which he refereed debates, dominated on procedural disputes and made certain lawmakers adopted parliamentary guidelines.
In response, Bercow mentioned the ruling was a “travesty of justice” and that the investigation was “amateurish” that relied on “tittle tattle and malicious gossip”.
“At the tip of it, the panel has merely mentioned that I must be denied a parliamentary pass which I’ve by no means utilized for and don’t need. That is the absurdity of its place,” he mentioned in a press release.
“It is a travesty of justice and brings disgrace on the House of Commons.”
(Reporting by Kylie MacLellan and Elizabeth Piper; enhancing by William James)
