John Bercow aims to stay on as Speaker to oversee Brexit process

Election literature from last year reveals intention to help supervise ‘challenging’ period John Bercow is planning to stay on as Speaker of the House of Commons until after the UK leaves the European Union in order to oversee the “challenging” period when MPs will thrash out Brexit laws. Bercow will resist attempts to topple him by critical Conservative MPs as he believes the Commons needs an experienced parliamentarian in the role to supervise “very complicated an