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The Speaker of the House of Commons is the presiding officer of the House of Commons, the lower house and primary chamber of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. [3] The current speaker, Lindsay Hoyle, was elected Speaker on 4 November 2019, following the retirement of John Bercow.
The Speaker of the House of Commons is the presiding officer of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The office was established by the Acts of Union 1800, which combined the Irish House of Commons and House of Commons of Great Britain, forming the modern Commons. [1]
As Speaker of the House of Commons he has an official residence at Speaker's House, at the northeast corner of the Palace of Westminster, which is used for official functions and meetings [70] and which has private accommodation in a four-bedroom apartment upstairs. [71] Hoyle has been married twice and has had two daughters. [5]
After an evening of chaos in the U.K. House of Commons on Wednesday, British lawmakers are calling for Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle to resign.
The election was triggered on 9 September 2019, when former Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, announced his resignation as both Speaker and Member of Parliament, effective at the end of the 31 October 2019 sitting, unless Parliament was dissolved for an early general election before that date, in which case the election of Speaker ...
Sir Lindsay Hoyle was speaking to the PA news agency following the conviction of Ali Harbi Ali for murdering veteran MP Sir David Amess in October.
John Simon Bercow (/ ˈ b ɜːr k oʊ /; born 19 January 1963) is a British former politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 2009 to 2019, and Member of Parliament (MP) for Buckingham between 1997 and 2019.
Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom) List of speakers of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom; A. Henry Addington; B. William Bromley (Speaker) C.