Self-important, but not servile: the pride and prejudice of John Bercow | CitySamuel
John Bercow was being compared to Gilbert & Sullivan’s modern major general this week, but a better literary comparator is surely Jane Austen’s Mr Collins, the pompous, unctuous clergyman from Pride and Prejudice.
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