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NEW: Runners and riders to replace John Bercow as Commons speaker, and why they think they should get the job

Read all their email pitches to MPs here >> buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/wh…
Lindsay Hoyle: Early favourite and stability candidate

— basically his pitch is he won’t cause drama
— like Bercow he will be big on LGBT/BAME rights/representation
— unlike Bercow he will be unscrupulously impartial

buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/wh…
Harriet Harman: Hold Boris Johnson and the Brexiteers to account

— eye-catching pitch on having the ‘confidence of the House’ and allowing ‘robust accountability’ of the govt
— better representation for women MPs
— combat harassment and threats

buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/wh…
Chris Bryant: The anti-Bercow who can unite the House

— Deliciously pass ag email pitch
— PMQs back down to 30 mins (🙏)
— “umpire not a player”
— “will never bully colleagues”
— “only speak when necessary”

buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/wh…
Edward Leigh: I’ll shut up if you make me Speaker

— “will not speak much” (are you sensing a theme?)
— fewer Urgent Questions
— MPs can only speak for 5 mins

... probably not popular with grandstanding MPs tho

buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/wh…
Meg Hillier: The details candidate

— will work hard
— offer proper thorough scrutiny

... If we’re honest it’s not the most exciting pitch

buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/wh…
Shailesh Vara — another one stressing the need for an impartial Speaker

(Eleanor Laing and Henry Bellingham have yet to email MPs their pitches)

buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/wh…
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💥 NEW: Cabinet row over a proposal by Liz Truss to give businesses a £1,500 'Brexit voucher' to prepare for no-deal

The idea was rejected by Michael Gove's XO committee. But Truss is determined to push ahead

buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/mi…
— Liz Truss' idea is to give SMEs that export to the EU a £1,500 voucher to pay for advice from accountants / lawyers ahead of Oct 31

— There were 5.7 million SMEs in the UK in 2018. 8% export to the EU

— But Truss said it'd only cost £30 million...

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— XO rejected the proposal after ministers raised concerns

— Govt source: “There was no targeting or checks and no way of knowing where the money would be going. You could have applied for a voucher and split the cash with an accountant friend.”

buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/mi…
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Alex Wickham
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Yellowhammer docs
— 2.5 day queues for HGVs at Kent
— significant electricity price increases for consumers
— winter weather and flu could exacerbate impacts and stretch resources
— public and biz readiness for no-deal will remain at a low level
— small and medium businesses less well prepared
— possible severe extended delays for medicines if situation unmitigated
— certain types of fresh food supply will decrease
— law enforcement data sharing disrupted
— financial services disrupted
— low income groups disproportionately affected
— protests across UK
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Lord Brodie: "This was an egregious case of a clear failure to comply with generally accepted standards of behaviour of public authorities"
Lord Brodie cont: "the principal reasons for the prorogation were to prevent or impede parliament holding the executive to account and legislating with regard to Brexit, and to allow the executive to pursue a policy of a no deal Brexit without further parliamentary interference"
Lord Drummond Young: "The circumstances, particularly the length of the prorogation, showed that the purpose was to prevent such scrutiny... The only inference that could be drawn was that the UK government and the Prime Minister wished to restrict Parliament."
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Louise Mensch
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The worst thing about John #Bercow as Speaker, removed by @Conservatives for excessive bias and abuse of the House, is that he succeeded another Speaker, Michael Martin, removed for the same reason.

If the next Speaker is not impartial, the powers of the office will go.
Parliament cannot be held to ransom by a supposedly neutral arbiter who then meets with factions representing only one side, mocks and taunts the people’s expressed will in a nationwide vote, or sides with one political party as Martin did before Bercow.
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nytimes.com/2019/02/04/us/…
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nytimes.com/2019/02/04/us/…
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