I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.
A legislature cannot be effective while suffering from public scorn.
Fairness is not about statistical equality.
When I first started out in politics I was, what you might describe as, a hard right Conservative.
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 never aspired to be Speaker simply so I could say, 'I am the Speaker of the House of Commons,' and tell my children that.