Tag Archives: John Bercow

Lecturing on Enoch Powell

Lord Norton 17/06/2011 – 7:24 pm

Amidst the essay and exam marking over the past few weeks, I was also busy working on a lecture on Enoch Powell, one of the most controversial politicians of the latter half of the 20th Century as well as a distinguished parliamentarian.   The Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, has organised a series of lectures this year to mark the centenary of the passage of the 1911 Parliament A […]

An unnecessary ceremony?

Lord Norton 05/07/2009 – 5:50 pm

When a new Speaker is elected by the Commons, the approbation of the monarch is required.  Rather than attend in person, the monarch conveys  that approbation through a royal commission.  MPs are summoned to the bar of the House of Lords and the commission - comprising the Lord Chancellor and the leaders of the parties (and the convenor of the cross-benchers) in the Lords - delivers the Queen […]