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Bercow is not biased

If you take at face value what pundits in SW1 tell you, John Bercow is biased.  He's got it in for the Tories and the Tory benches have it in for him.

Not so.  To be sure, the party grandees certainly can't stand him.  He's forever ticking them off for not taking the Commons seriously.  He is constantly ensuring that the backbenchers are able to hold the government to account.

In other words, as I argue in my Telegraph piece, Bercow is doing what a Speaker ought to do.  And the good old boy system in Westminster is a little miffed by it.

Don't get me wrong.  Mr Bercow's politics are not mine.  But the fact that he ruffles feathers amongst the Westminster grandees means that he is doing something right.

The louder the SW1 insiders complain about Bercow, the more confidence the rest of us can have that he's doing the right thing.

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