WorldBritish lawmakers elected Labour’s Lindsay Hoyle as Speaker on Monday to take on the role of refereeing the next parliamentary instalment of the protracted struggle over Brexit. Hoyle, who has been deputy speaker since 2010, was elected after four rounds of secret ballots in a process which took several hours. Since 2017, the ruling Conservative Party has not had a majority in parliament, giving rivals more freedom to challenge the government and the Speaker a big say in the process. “We’ll have to wait and see whether the new Speaker faces similar conditions with Brexit and minority government. If we have a majority government, it might be that actually Commons procedure becomes a little bit less crucial.”(REUTERS)

Source: Sunday Times November 04, 2019 21:11 UTC