Sign up to FREE email alerts from the Northern Agenda The former Speaker of the House of Commons and Conservative MP John Bercow has launched a stinging attack on his former party labelling them 'xenophobic' as he reveals he has defected to Labour.
Mr Bercow, who stepped down as Speaker after 10 years in 2019, announced on Saturday that he joined the Labour Party in recent weeks.
And in a parting shot he said he now regards the Tories under Prime Minister Boris Johnson as “reactionary, populist, nationalistic and sometimes even xenophobic”. READ MORE: Third wave of Covid 'definitely under way' as Greater Manchester records case rates three times national average “I am motivated by support for equality, social justice and
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