While Speaker of the House of Commons, Bercow mismanaged a spate of allegations of bullying and harassment across the house. The inquiry by Dame Laura Cox, in 2018, showed Parliament’s processes for dealing with such accusations to be lax and ineffective. And there was another elephant in the room – Bercow’s own conduct. Accusations against him were revealed in a series of explosive Newsnight reports in early 2018, which saw numerous former subordinates detail a campaign of aggressive and unprofessional behaviour by the former Speaker. The most egregious, but by no means exceptional, involved Bercow’s former private secretary Kate Emms, who in 2011 left the Speaker’s Office and later sought treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. Another of Bercow’s former private secretaries, Angus Sinclair, reported having pieces of Bercow’s phone hit him when the Speaker threw it onto the table in front of him. Since that reporting, three of Bercow’s most senior subordinates have lodged formal...