Nobody loves a lecture from the Speaker more than John Bercow

‘He is a man who looks in a mirror and falls in love at first sight.’ Photograph: Yui Mok/PADo not go gentle into that good night. John Bercow may have announced he will be standing down as Speaker at the close of proceedings in the House of Commons on 31 October, but there was never any chance he would take Dylan Thomas’s poem as anything other than a direct instruction. In his remaining time in office, he is hell-bent on taking no prisoners and in the sixth annual Bingham lec