There were whispers from the moment the bullying and sexual harrassment of women in Westminster began to gain a head of steam that there were some murky goings-on likely to be exposed.
We have seen the somewhat undignified departure from Ministerial office of of senior Tory and close Theresa May friend Damian Green over the laptop porn saga, and two senior Welsh Labour politicians have died suddenly and unexpectedly, one a suicide, over sex allegations.
The rumours were turned up a few notches last week with gathering clouds over the Speaker of the House of Commons, elfin-featured John Bercow, whose tenure of the third highest political office in the land has never been far from controversial.
In a pincer movement seeing some Conservative MPs, many of whom have grown to loathe their nominal colleague, the Right Honourable Member for Buckingham, since his elevation to the Chair, moving in to demand he step aside whilst the House of Commons investigates claims Bercow bullied his female secretary to the point of mental breakdown - and Labour front up the veteran MP Harriet Harman to take over the job, given that it is Labour's 'turn' to have the job.
Ms Harman herself has kept her own counsel but many see her as eminently well-suited to the job and that she is a woman being hugely important symbolically (not that there has not been a woman Speaker before - there has, as well as several Deputy Speakers).
Some might say Bercow has brought this on himself and richly deserves to be packed off into political Siberia, irrespective of the truth of the abuse allegations.
Arise Speaker Harman.
We have seen the somewhat undignified departure from Ministerial office of of senior Tory and close Theresa May friend Damian Green over the laptop porn saga, and two senior Welsh Labour politicians have died suddenly and unexpectedly, one a suicide, over sex allegations.
The rumours were turned up a few notches last week with gathering clouds over the Speaker of the House of Commons, elfin-featured John Bercow, whose tenure of the third highest political office in the land has never been far from controversial.
In a pincer movement seeing some Conservative MPs, many of whom have grown to loathe their nominal colleague, the Right Honourable Member for Buckingham, since his elevation to the Chair, moving in to demand he step aside whilst the House of Commons investigates claims Bercow bullied his female secretary to the point of mental breakdown - and Labour front up the veteran MP Harriet Harman to take over the job, given that it is Labour's 'turn' to have the job.
Ms Harman herself has kept her own counsel but many see her as eminently well-suited to the job and that she is a woman being hugely important symbolically (not that there has not been a woman Speaker before - there has, as well as several Deputy Speakers).
Some might say Bercow has brought this on himself and richly deserves to be packed off into political Siberia, irrespective of the truth of the abuse allegations.
Arise Speaker Harman.
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