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's a cowardly form of politics to use my spouse to beat me.
Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment.
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.
Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.
When I first started out in politics I was, what you might describe as, a hard right Conservative.