Labour's Dawn Butler has criticised the Tories for not giving John Bercow a peerage, accusing the party of 'bullying' the former Commons Speaker. Read more here:
He added:"The prime minister chooses individuals who could sit in the House of Lords as Conservative peers. There's no obligation on the prime minister to make John Bercow a member of the House of Lords.
"A lot of his conduct is there for all the world to see because it was done sitting in the speaker's chair in the house of Commons." Following Labour's drubbing at the polls, she acknowledged the raft of Labour's election pledges were"too complex" with"just too much of it".
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