If you asked me if I'd rather be Speaker or a very senior minister, I'd say Speaker.

Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.

For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs.

Fairness is not about statistical equality.

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

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.