Theresa May accuses John Bercow of ‘biggest abuse of power’ to thwart Brexit
John Bercow has been accused of the “biggest abuse of power” in his makes an attempt to dam Brexit from occurring.
The blindside comes from normally mild-mannered Theresa May, who’s bringing out a ebook referred to as The Abuse of Power: Confronting Injustice in Public Life, in September.
Any politics obsessives hoping for Mrs May to assault her successor, Boris Johnson, will likely be upset in accordance with the Sunday Times, who sat down with the previous premier for her first main interview since leaving Downing Street in 2019.
The solely goal of private ire is former Commons speaker John Bercow, whom she accuses of finishing up the most important abuse of energy she ever witnessed in the course of the Parliamentary Brexit deadlock over Northern Ireland.
She informed the paper: “We got to a point where the DUP were being positive. We were actually at the point of them being willing to say they would support the deal”.
“The normal processes went on in terms of going to the Speaker to talk about the motion, and he wouldn’t let us put the motion down. So that meant we couldn’t have the debate, we couldn’t have the vote, and by the time we did the DUP had changed [their mind].
“And so there was a point we could have had a vote to do Brexit on the basis of the deal. He took a decision that meant that didn’t go ahead.”
Her ebook focusses on occasions exterior of celebration politics, together with Hillsborough, the police cover-up of Daniel Morgan and Grenfell fireplace.
Mrs May’s ebook makes simply 13 fleeting references to Boris Johnson, although she does focus in on Partygate for example of politicians making a “perception that somehow MPs were able to get away with breaking the sort of rules which they would expect everyone else to follow”.
“The idea that there has been one rule for the public and another for MPs provokes public cynicism and leads increasingly to the charge of hypocrisy.
“In other words, why should we do what you say when you don’t do it yourself? Above all, it shatters any sense that MPs are leaders in society.
“Yet I still believe we have a responsibility to try to show such leadership. It may be harder in today’s world, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try.”
Like her plans for an early General Election, she says she got here up with the thought for a ebook whereas on a strolling vacation along with her husband within the Alps.
Mrs May argues politicians want to grasp their jobs are about public service, reasonably than energy, in an effort to restore integrity to parliament.
“What you fundamentally need is for MPs not to think that they’re a species apart simply because they’ve been elected.
“It’s that sense that, for some MPs, they are in a position of power because they’ve been elected, that they’re special, that they are a breed set apart. I think we have to change that thinking because, basically, being an MP is a job.”