'He should be called out.' Former black rod David Leakey details the nature of John Bercow's alleged bullying saying 'the red mist would descend and he would insult me'. More on the bullying claims:
He added:"He called me an antisemite once and was extremely rude about my background, education and military career.the former speaker of bullying him over the years and said several highly ranking parliamentary staff and politicians had told him privately they were bullied by Mr Bercow.a dossier of allegations against Mr Bercow to the Parliamentary Standards Authority.
Labour's shadow home secretary said it was"unlikely" that a former senior military officer like Mr Leakey could have been bullied by Mr Bercow.In his interview, which took place before Ms Abbott's comments, Mr Leakey said much of what took place with the former speaker was"water off a duck's back", because"frankly I've been shouted at by enough sergeant majors in my military training as a young officer".
Responding in detail to the claims against him, Mr Bercow told Sky News in an exclusive interview:"[Mr Leakey] doesn't know what my relationship was with my clerks."What we have here is a person who had left the House, is thrashing about, desperate to remain relevant, popping up at every turn, trying to make himself seem very important, centre stage, at the heart of things in the way I went about my work.
"I raised this two years ago and the reason I raised it then was because there were other people who were being bullied and intimidated in the way that he tried to intimidate me." Mr Leakey said the former speaker entering the House of Lords would be"a scandal that parliament would struggle to live down".
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