names forward as candidates for this great office. and, to the high quality of their speeches today. we should draw confidence from the knowledge that all of the ten candidates are clearly driven by the desire to do what is best by this house, and in so doing what is best for the public and those we serve. and i thank them all. let me also thaveragee the right honorable member, the house he has ensured today that the election under new procedures has been carried out and done with his customary charm, dignity, and fairness. pleek elect, all of -- mr. speaker elect, all of us know you bring great personal strength, integrity, and independence to the off we elected you. your deep and passionate concern for childrens issues has been warmly welcomed right across this house. your interest in helping those in greatest need not only here

in britain but some of the poorest people in the planet has been a mark of your distinction. in your court sharing in birminghama you have dems -- burma you have dems straighted your commitment to every part of this world. you say you now cast aside all your past political views as some of us thought you had done that some time ago. . .

>> the leader of the opposition.

>> thank you. mr. speaker-elect may i join the approximately in offering my congratulations and in wishing you well, not least in crossing that last hurdle that the prime minister referred to, the agreement of the monarch. i would like to thank the father of the house for the way he conducted the proceeds, i wasn't here for the last contested election for speaker but i gather this was a model of efficiency and good practice so thank you for that. mr. speaker and mr. speaker-elect, you know on this side of the house, all colleagues share a view of the importance of the house of commons, the importance of the role of speakers and the importance of the practices and procedures in this house. you should know that in discharging your responsibilities, it goes without saying that you have the support of these benches but not just in your work as speaker but in the vital work of reforming and renewing this house that so badly needs to happen. mr. speaker-elect, i read a lot

about our own relationship, the theme that has never come out is the fact that of course briefly for a time we were both together the first pair of the lords and commons tennis team [laughter] and i would also like to put on record a historical first that you have achieved which is to be the first person of the jewish faith to occupy the office of speaker of the house of commons and another milestone we should mark. i also noticed, noted as all colleagues did what you said about casting away your past political views and i think on this side of the house we would say let's hope that includes all of them! [laughter] i listened carefully as honorable members did throughout the house to an excellent debate this afternoon and a series of have strong and powerful speeches. i thought there was something very honorable in what the

honorable member for gous ter said we need to demonstrate in this house that we get it, we get the need for transparency, we get the need for reform of pay and allowances and we get the need to understand and respond properly to the public's anger. we share a collective responsibility for what went wrong. we share a collective responsibility for putting it right. your success will enable all of us to succeed in that. on that note, i wish you well. >> i would also like to add my congratulations on your election, mr. speaker-elect and thank of course the father of the house for conducting the proingd. the move to secret ballot was the right one and i congratulate him for inaugurating the process so successfully though judges by the cheer that went up when he said the thirst ballot would be accelerated i'm not alone in

hoping we will be able to move at a less dignified pace. mr. speaker-elect, you have an enormous challenge and opportunity before you. never in living memory has parliament been the subject of so much anger ask dismay from the people who send us here. the need for change is quite simply unprecedented. you know as we all do that change does not come easily to this place with ol' habits die hard. you must be different from every speaker who has ever come before you. no longer just another pillar of the tabment, we urge you to reinvent the role speaker as a catalyst for radical change. on your own you cannot bring about that change but you can become one of the prime architects of it. in your speech to us this afternoon, you rightly said, i don't want to be something, i want to do something. i would urge you, too, to remember the words of the other candidates in today's elections,

especially the words of the honorable member for gloucester who said we should all be looking to change the settlement between parliament and the people and the words of the honorable member for auldridge brown hill that this is not a moment for -- but a moment for action. to misquote the misquotes from the honorable member from northwest hampshire, you should now show you are in the office of speaker but not rub by the office of speaker. you will be the near of an institution which you yourself will wish to challenge. we know there are many things everyone agrees on so let us not delay, consult and analyze, but act quickly on reform under your leadership. mr. speaker, you have a mandate for change, not just from the votes you won today across the floor of the house of commons, but from the people whose legitimate anger made this election happen. i urge you to use it.

>> my lord, i beg to acquaint the house that a commission has been issued under the great seal to -- therein named authorizing said lords to declare in the name and on behalf of her majesty, her approbation of the choice of the commons of the right honorable john bercow to right honorable john bercow to be their speaker.

>> let the commons know that the lord xhirs desire their immediate attendance in this house to hear the commission house to hear the commission read.

>> andy rich forward of the police in front of keith friendships, principal door keeper have the house of lords. and proceeding sir 43 di vigars, kcb, not just black robed, but also sergeant-at-arms of the house of lords. they have a job share, have since 1971 in the house of lords. he has powers of arrest, anywhere in the house of lords and they are making their way now through central lobby towards the house of commons where as the door will be slammed in black -- face. as the queen isn't present, but there is a royal commission --

is wearing semi-state uniforms this evening. >> no frills? >> no frills, just a plane white bo tie by the look of things and he hasn't got any lays cuffs or lays jabot. no medals, of course, he doesn't where any medals. >> he approaches the door of the >> he approaches the door of the house of commons. >> sounds like he's trying to break it down. he enters the house of commons. accompanied by the accompanied by the sergeant-at-arms.

>> authorized by virtue of her majesty's commission to declare royal approbation to election of the speaker requires the immediate attendance of this honorable house in the house of peers. >> trad dish shall none balloting and now the speaker-elect john bercow -- the mace is being carried like a baby. on this one occasion, this mace is carried in this particular manner. talking to our political correspondent in the gallery when john bercow was declared the winner, he did say a lot of

mps did not applaud him and they mps did not applaud him and they didn't laugh at his jokes. >> john bercow will have a lot of work to do to bring down those members in his support. he has certainly got his work cut out and he's going to have to bond with the commoners. >> and also bond with the british people. he did return 6,500 pound of expenses after he had -- that he thought it was best to return those pounds but he said that he must feel as speaker to be -- of the british people on the whole

expense. carrying the pace in this unusual way. they are followed by the class of the house of commons and the of the house of commons and the speaker's secretary.

>> my lords, i have to acquaint your lordships that her majesty's faibility full commons obedience have in the exercise of their undoubted right to privileges proceeded to the election of a speaker and that their choice has fallen on me. i therefore present myself at your lord ships' bar and submit myself with all humility for her majesty's gracious approbation. my lords, and members of the house of commons, -- to her majesty to be personally present here at this time, a commission has been issued under the great seal commanding us and several

other lords therein named to notify and declare her majesty's approbation of the choice of her faithful commons of mr. john bercow to be their speaker, which commission you shall now hear read. elizabeth ii, by the grace of god of the united kingdom of great brynn and northern ireland and other realms and territories queen, head of the commonwealth, defender of the faith, to all to whom these presents shall come, greetings. whereas we did lately -- difficult and pressing affairs concerning us, the state, and defense of our united kingdom and the church or detain this, our present parliament, to begin and beholden at our city of westminster, the 11th day of may in the 54th year of our reign on

which day our said parliament was begun and holden and is there now holden and whereas we have been informed the lower house of our said parliament have lately made choice of our beloved and faithful john simon bercow, esquire, in the room of our beloved and faithful michael john martin, esquire, to be speaker of the said lower house of our said parliament of which choice we are graciously pleased to approve and to allow and confirm the same and for as much as the caused and considerations we cannot conveniently at this time be present in our royal person in our said parliament, know ye that we, trusting in the fidelity and care of the most reverent father in god and our faithful counsel letter,

archbishop of canterbury, primate of all england and metropolitan, our well-beloved and faithful counselors john whitaker straw, chancellor of great briton, thomas galloway dunlop, lord mcnally, janet -- barone necessary royal of blaisden, francis gertrude claire, baroness and other lord of our privy counsel cell by the tenor of these prebts to give and grant to them or any three or more of them full par in our name to declare and notify our

royal approbation of the choice of the said john simon bercow to be speaker of the said lower house of our said parliament and to allow and confirm the said john simon bercow to be speaker of the said lower house and to do all things in our said parliament that may be necessary for declaring our said royal approbation allowance and confirmation of the said john simon bercow to be speaker of the said lower house of our said parliament. in witness whereoff we have caused these, our letters, to be made patent, witness ourself at westminster, the 22nd day of june in the 58th year of our reign by the queen herself signed with her own hand.

>> mr. bercow, we have it in command from her majesty to declare her entire confidence in your talent, diligence and sufficiency to fulfill the important duties of the high office of speaker of the house of commons to which you have been chosen by that house and in obedience to the commission, which has been read and by virtue of the authority therein contained, we do declare her majesty's royal allowance and confirmation of you, sir, as speaker of the house of commons. >> my lords, i submit myself with all humility and gratitude to her majesty's royal will and pleasure. i pray that if, in the discharge of my duties and in the maintenance of the rights and privileges of the common's house of parliament i should

inadvertently fall into error, it may be imputed to me alone and not to her majesty's table full commons. full commons. >> hear, hear. >> i beg to move the house -- >> the house do now adjourn.

>> i beg to move the house --

>> i have to report that this house has been in the house of lords where her majesty has been pleased by her majesty's commissioners to approve the choice made of myself for the office of speaker. my first duty to the house is to repeat my respectful acknowledgement and migrate full thanks for the great honor you have conferred upon me in placing me in the chair and to renew the assurance of my entire devotion to the service of the house. the prime minister, the leader

of the house. >> i beg to move that in humble object be presented to her majesty praying her majesty that she will be most graciously pleased to confirm some signal mark upon the right hon ran michael martin for his services during the important period in which he has with such distinguished ability and dignity presided in the chair of the house and to assure her majesty whatever expense her majesty shall think fit to be conferred, this house will make good the same. >> hear, hear. >> the question is that a humble address be presented to her majesty praying her that she will be most graciously pleased to confer some signal mark of her royal favor upon the right honorable mr. michael martin for his eminent services during the important period in we which he preciseed with such distinguished ability and dignity in the ch