live on the free c-span radio app. >> campaign 2020. watch our live coverage of the presidential candidate on the campaign trail and make up your own mind. c-span's campaign 2020, your unfiltered view of politics. >> the british parliament is currently in recess. prime ministers questions will not be seen tonight. on monday, british house of commons speaker john perko delivered a statement announcing his resignation after serving 10 years in that position. he told members of parliament that he plans to step down as speaker by october 31. following his remarks, labor party liebert jeremy corbyn delivered tribute remarks, thinking mr. bercow for his leadership. >> order.

i will come to points of order in due time. i should bear those honorable members in mind. colleagues, i would like to make a personal statement to the house. after the 2017 election, i promised my wife and children that it would be my last. this is a pledge that i intend to keep. if the house votes tonight for an early general election, my tenure as speaker m.p. will end when this parliament ends. if the house does not so vote, i have concluded that the least disruptive and most democratic

course of action will be to stand down at the close of business on thursday, october 31. [laughter] [applause] mr. bercow: least disruptive because that date will fall shortly after the votes on the queen's speech expected on 21st and 22nd, october. a week or so after that may be quite lively and it would be

best to have an experienced figure in the chair. for that short period. most democratic because it will mean that a balance is held when all members have some knowledge of the candidates. this is far preferable to a contest at the beginning of a parliament when new m.p.'s will not be similarly informed and may find themselves vulnerable to undue institutional influence.

we would not want anyone to be with senseless, would we? [laughter] mr. bercow: throughout my time as speaker, i have sought to increase the relative authority of this legislature, for which i will make absolutely no apology for anyone, anywhere, at anytime. to deploy a perhaps dangerous phrase, i have also sought to be

the back benchers' backstop. [laughter] mr. bercow: i could not do so without the support of a small, but superb team in speaker's house, the wider house stuff, my -- staff, my buckingham constituents, and above all, my wife, sally, and our three children, oliver, freddie, and jemima. [applause]

mr. bercow: from the bottom of my heart, i thank them all profusely. i also could not have served without the repeated support of this house and its members, past and present. this is a wonderful place, filled overwhelmingly by people who are motivated by their notion of the national interest, by perception of the public not asnd by their duty, delegates, but as

representatives to do what they believe is right for our country. we degrade this parliament at our peril. i have served as a member of parliament for 22 years and for last 10 as a speaker. this has been -- let me put it explicitly -- the greatest privilege and honor of my professional life, for which i will be eternally grateful. i wish my successor in the chair

the very best fortune in standing up for the rights of honorable and right honorable members, individually and for parliament, institutionally, as the speaker of the house of commons. thank you. [applause]

mr. bercow: you really are a very, very, very generous bunch of people, indeed. and thank you on both sides of the house, for which i richly appreciate. i love this place. you love this place. and we look forward to the future with interest and anticipation and enthusiasm. and final order, leader of the opposition, mr. jeremy corbyn. mr. corbyn: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to put on record my thanks to you for being a superb speaker of the house. my thanks to you as a colleague in parliament. and my thanks to your family for the way in which they supported you through often very difficult times when the media has been unfair to you. and your two sons are getting good at football.

i did some kicks with them in the speaker's court the other day. i was very impressed, actually. they're coming on well. and i know you support the same club as me. but mr. speaker, in your role as speaker, you've totally changed the way in which the job has been done. you've reached out to people across the whole country. you visited schools. you visited factories. you visited offices. you talked to people about the role of parliament and democracy. and i've never forgotten you coming to sit in with my colleagues in my constituency and spending the morning with me talk to a group of students all of which had learning difficulties and we discussed with them the roles of democracy and parliament. and you've taken absolutely on board the words of speaker lentil, that you're there to be guided and acted on behalf of parliament. this parliament is stronger for your being speaker. whatever you do when you finally

step down from parliament, you do so with the thanks of a very large number of people. and as one that's made the role of speaker in the house more powerful, not less powerful. i welcome that. and as somebody who aspires to hold executive office, i like the idea of a powerful parliament holding the executive to account. it's something i spent the last 35 years doing myself. [laughter] so, mr. speaker, enjoy the last short period in your office, but it's going to be the most dramatic it's been and i think your choice of timing and date is incomparable and will be recorded in the history books of parliament through democracy. mr. speaker, on behalf of the labour party, i thank you for your work in promoting democracy and this house. thank you. >> the british parliament is currently in recess and is scheduled to return on monday, october 14. go to our website at c-span.org

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