Sir Lindsay Hoyle promises calm after being elected Speaker

Successor to John Bercow – and 158th occupant of the job - beats Chris Bryant in final round of voting. Sir L indsay Hoyle was elected as the new Speaker of the House of Commons on Monday, succeeding John Bercow who held the role for more than a decade. The 62-year-old Labour MP for Chorley, the only candidate who refused to say how he voted in the 2016 EU referendum, became the 158th Speaker after beating six others in a secret ballot of members. An avuncular Lancastrian, Hoyle has promis