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Early life and education. Bercow was born in Edgware, Middlesex, [citation needed] the son of Brenda (née Bailey) and Charles Bercow, a taxi driver. His father was born to a Jewish family and his mother converted to Judaism. His paternal grandparents were Romanian Jews who arrived in Britain from Romania in the early 20th century.
Bercow graduated with first-class honours and worked in banking before entering politics – first as a councillor in Lambeth and then as a special adviser to chief secretary to the Treasury,...
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Sep 9, 2019 · 9 September 2019. By Mark D'Arcy,Parliamentary correspondent. EPA. So farewell then. John Bercow. He has been that rare thing - a historically significant Speaker of the Commons, making rulings...
- He was a tennis talent. John Bercow, 54, sometimes refers to his favourite sport in the Commons chamber, recently revealing to MPs the heights of noisy passion he reaches when watching Davis Cup matches on TV.
- He moved to the centre. It was as a schoolboy in Finchley, then the constituency of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, that Mr Bercow became involved in politics.
- He's not fond of (at least some) traditions. Just a few minutes before he made his comments on Mr Trump on Monday, Mr Bercow announced that he was ending the requirement for Commons clerks - the advisers who sit in front of him - to wear wigs.
- He's had a few rows. Mr Bercow has been praised for ensuring that backbench MPs get a proper chance to question ministers. He has also had run-ins with several politicians, some of whom think he is a little too fond of his own voice.
Oct 31, 2019 · 30 October 2019. By Ed Lowther & Will Dahlgreen,BBC Data Journalists. BBC. John Bercow is standing down as Commons Speaker on Thursday after 10 years in the job. His idiosyncratic turn of...
Feb 17, 2020 · The country, exhausted by the trauma, appears desperate to move on: the Brexit debate and Bercow — bellowing at red-faced Tory MPs — now feel like they belong in the past. Just as Johnson ...
Mar 19, 2019 · By Ellen Barry. March 19, 2019. LONDON — A measure of the strangeness of the times in Brexit Britain is that one can buy T-shirts bearing the face of John Bercow, the speaker of the House of ...
