‘Rude and threatening’: the main findings of the John Bercow bullying inquiry

The panel said had Bercow still been a member of parliament, ‘we would have determined that he should be expelled by resolution of the house’. Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA

An independent inquiry has called the former House of Commons Speaker John Bercow a “serial bully” and liar, saying it would have recommended his expulsion from the Commons had he been an MP.

Bercow has been suspended from the Labour party over the conclusions of the inquiry, which came after his appeal against a report from the parliamentary commissioner for standards, Kathryn Stone.