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BREXIT - Furious Brexiteers raise questions about
Speaker Bercow in angry parliamentary exchanges.
"Mister Speaker" John Bercow was at the centre
of furious Commons scenes as MPs squabbled
over the potential process of bringing forward a
Brexit plan B.
The Commons Speaker faced a backlash from
Conservative MPs after selecting an amendment
from Tory former minister Dominic Grieve, which
aims to ensure Prime Minister Theresa May
returns with a revised EU exit plan within three
sitting days if her original Brexit deal is defeated.
Mr Grieve’s amendment wants to speed up
the process for a plan B and seeks to change
a Government motion detailing the timetable
for the Brexit deal debate, which Tory MPs
argued was “unamendable”.
Mr Bercow stood by his decision, telling the
Commons: “My understanding is the motion
is amendable, I’m clear in my mind about that.”
After heckles from the Tory benches, he added:
“I’m trying to do the right thing and make the right
judgments. That is what I have tried to do and
what I will go on doing.”
Tory former minister Mark Francois, deputy
chairman of the Eurosceptic European Research
Group (ERG), claimed Mr Bercow was not following
his own rules.