It is quite wrong for party conferences to be used as an excuse for the Commons not to sit. Conferences could be held at weekends.

It is quite wrong for party conferences to be used as an excuse for the Commons not to sit. Conferences could be held at weekends.

I don't want to crawl over the entrails of past disputes.

I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.

The Conservatives must realise that being sceptical is different from being phobic in what is an interdependent world.

I never aspired to be Speaker simply so I could say, 'I am the Speaker of the House of Commons,' and tell my children that.

It's a cowardly form of politics to use my spouse to beat me.