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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ashley Cowburn

John Bercow suspended by Labour after report brands him ‘serial bully’

AP

Former Commons speaker John Bercow has been suspended from the Labour Party after a highly critical independent inquiry branded him a “serial bully”.

The former Tory MP, who left the Commons in 2019, announced last year that he had joined Sir Keir Starmer’s party, labelling the Conservatives “reactionary, populist, nationalistic and sometimes even xenophobic”.

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