next, a presentation from bbc parliament on the life of career -- of house of commons speaker john bercow. it showcases old speeches and interviews from his 10 years of -- as a member of british parliament. it is 25 minutes. >> order. ♪ >> the speaker who did it his way. >> member of the third row. perhaps you have no contribution to make. >> on a long and colorful political journey.

>> i am not interested in signing up to a policy. >> dispensing advice along the way. >> calm yourself and take a soothing medicant. >> he has been one of the great speakers, a transformative leader in the stuffy world of westminster. to his critics, he was pompous, biased even, changing the rules to fit his own agenda. the decisions he took in his chair over 10 years may have changed the course of history. his style made him an unlikely international celebrity. order at were yelling you and asking you to take selfies. this must be in the green -- a new experience. >> years before his became a familiar face in our screens, john bercow made his debut on children's tv. >> it's time for the boys game now.

he does go home with a pencil and pen. john bercow's first question time came on bbc tv in 1981. the featured speaker was just old enough to vote. for him to describe it as economic nonsense is absurd. with his castle recalls in her recent book that mr. callahan once said, he would never have no access to britain's economic problems. --'s just the reason he sorted i make no apology for saying --e government should not

level of inflation is zero inflation. >> he was a leading figure in the anti-immigration group on the far right of the party and eight crowdpleasing party activist. >> and punitive taxation and the release of our industry from cumbersome political control, resulting in failure in the form of a socialist nightmare, hardly bearing reflection. eight -- by 1992, he was fighting and losing for labor seat in bristol. he was to travel a long way politically. even after being elected mp of buckingham, the continued to euro -- fly the flag for skepticism. >> accusatory euro skeptic and part of it. >> it will almost certainly fail.

it is absolute nonsense for britain to sign up to a policy made by people in frankfurt who do not elect and we cannot remove. >> his views and crockery have changed as an ambitious mp. his marriage coincided with his own political journey, having been promoted to the shadow cabinet, he resigned to rebel against the party line on gay adoption. >> york far too young -- you are far too young. >> he became semi-detached from his party. traditionally, openly campaigning to be speaker was not done. in 2009, he ran a well organized, professional and successful campaign. >> the speaker should be neutral within this chamber. but they should not be neutral about this chamber. anelected, i would be arbiter for my -- our political

relevance. i finally turned to the world of westminster. i would be comfortable to be both a speaker and a listener. 22. -- 322.ow, 3g 322. sir george young, 271. >> john bercow was elected on the third ballot. most joined in the applause as he was dragged to the speaker's tradition that reaches back to the days of the monarch, a life shortening challenge. -- which could be a life shortening challenge. speaker broke with tradition by banning the -- abandoning the

court dress, and its place, a business suit and down. a visual symbol of his reforming intentions. they even dispensed with their leg -- wakes. >> he -- wigs. >> he change the way they work. poetry procedure is now 180 pages longer than it used to be. questions a few times a year. with speaker broke out in the chair, ministers would be summoned to this dispatch box a few times a week. >> urgent question. question, diane abbott. >> mps were given more chances to question each of the four-part ministers of the perko years. -- bercow years. -- they began to have

bercow time. he wonderedn said on waking what john bercow would do to make his life hell today. [shouting] >> in response to that question, the five pillars -- prime minister can take it for me that he is finished. -- from me that he is finished. >> the bercow modernizing influence has been felt outside the chamber. >> i must say that i celebrate the house of commons nursery.

t celebrated-- to be honest, i was my idea. ♪ there is not a dry eye announced. that was true. >> you take it on board. tle,words of speaker len that you are there to be guided and act on behalf of our parliament. stronger fornt is your being speaker. our democracy is stronger for your being the speaker. whatever you do when you finally step down from parliament, you

do so with the thanks of the large number of people. case, your rule as the backstop has been one that has been appreciated by individuals across this house. >> not in appreciation universally shared in government. >> the governor chief where it does not have any business whatsoever shouting from a sedentary position. >> the honorable gentlemen will remain in the chamber. he has absolutely no business scurrying out of the chamber. order. the chief has absolutely no business -- order. the right honorable gentlemen has no business behaving in that way. >> ministers had lost patience a long time ago.

in 2015, the trade tried -- try to change the rules for electing the leader, the crew failed, to his relief. -- leader. the coup failed, much to his relief. >> order. >> 202. 220. [cheering] ♪ >> john bercow came to the chair promising a pre--- clean break with the past. but he had issues, too. >> i wish to make a statement about disturbing allegations about the culture of sexual harassment at westminster. between members and those who work for members. let me make it clear. tolerance of zero

sexual harassment or bullying here at westminster or elsewhere. >> some of the allegations were close to home. >> i think our problem was that he would not communicate. it was as sweet -- as if we had to guess what he wanted. that will always lead to mistakes. this happened a number of times. it seemed to be more frequent. wayspeaker responded in a that i can only say was a form of bullying and that is to show , to say that somebody has failed in front of others. >> claims robustly denied by john bercow. >> i have a superb team of effective, and long serving staff. have served me for

a collective total of over 40 years. that they to confirm great majority of people who have left my service have done so on perfectly amicable terms. >> some senior mps wanted more action after the publication of a report by retired high court judge, named laura cox. >> mimicking, belittling in front of other members, status,ng someone's making lengthy and humiliating tirades and criticism of abuse in front of colleagues. how can we encourage mr. speaker to stop this behavior? >> the report is clear that there needs to be a complete change in leadership at the most senior level, including you, mr. speaker. >> i spoke about being bullied

as a teenager. two breakdowns in one episode of hospitalization. there it important and are some that have used it as their own agenda using bowling to bully the speaker. ♪ >> written votes to leave the european union in 2016. >> we can now say the decision taken in 1975 by this country to join the common market has been toersed by this referendum leave the eu. >> the consequences of that vote have dominated parliament ever since, with its reverie becoming a key player. -- oncebercow was first a proud euro skeptic. , and crucially let people know about it. is handling of brexit legislation, allowing backbench

mps to take over the agenda infuriated ministers and brexit tears. for some, it was confirmation that the speaker was no longer impartial. >> for many of us, we now have an unshakable conviction that --e reverie of our affairs [rabbling] >> we will have an unshakable conviction that the referee is no longer neutral. >> i have always been scrupulously fair to brexit tears and remainders alike, as i have always been to people of different opinions on a number of different issues. that has always been the case, it is the case, it will continue to be the case. >> newspapers discovered a bollocks to brexit sticker on a bercow car. >> we noticed sticker on your

car making derogatory comments about brexit. have you driven that car without sticker? -- with that sticker? > that happens to be in the windscreen of my wife's car. i'm sure the honorable gentlemen would not suggest for one moment that the wife is somehow the property or chattel of her husband. [applause] views.entitled to her that sticker is not mine and that is the end of it. >> it wasn't the end of the argument over his approach to brexit. 202.e ayes, the nos, 432.

the government defeats began to mount for theresa may. ministers accused the reverie of changing the rules to make it harder for mps to back her brexit you. >> the issue is that the role of the chair is to uphold the rules that parliament has made for itself. not to arbitrarily change those rules. was nothing arbitrary about the conduct of the chair yesterday. aware ofker is well how to go about the business of chairing the proceedings of the been, his head -- he has doing so for 9.5 years. i hope my colleagues will understand what i say that when i require no lessons or lectures about how to discharge my obligations to parliament and in support of the rights of a backbench parliamentarian. >> a change of prime minister

and a new brexit deal did not change john bercow's approach. >> today's circumstances are in substance the same as saturdays circumstances. that it will not be debated today, as it would be repetitive and disorderly to do so. >> can you understand that in the right of your comments, why some people perceive that the only consistency one can find in your rulings as they always seem to favor one side of the argument and never the government who are trying their best to carry out the mandate given to them by the british people in 2016? >> i know that the dilemmas you face means that our location -- on occasion you to please islam and not others. it is a mark will hearten you please one lot and not the other. -- remarkable how you please one lot and at the other. >> when he was getting the

decisions in his favor, he was not grumbling. he is grumbling now, because he does not like the judgment. made is ant i have honorable and fair one, and if the honorable gentlemen does not like it, there is not much i can do about that. ♪ >> john bercow has a way with words. mps were said to play his bingo, ticking off favorite words from his phrasebook. >> anybody who understands the constitution knows that her majesty has no discretion. gentlemenhonorable opposite, using your favorite word, "chauntering away merrily," and they should have to go back to school and learn about the constitution. a book can be provided. for me to say, and it wasn't evident to me whether the activity was being

undertaken, but i can certainly confirm that there was chauntering from a sedentary positiio-- position. i can say that it is very commonplace. i had noticed in my troubles to parliaments around the world that there is a source of regular comment and no little amusement. >> order. i noticed earlier that you in a different condition today. i recommend you take a soothing predicament. you are an incorrigible individual. your yelling from a sedentary .osition please take a soothing predicament from which you will benefit. some detected a jane austen

influence in his vocabulary. >> kanas speaker tell us what he is talking about when he is talking about a blind motion? the think it's for secretary of state to explain the terms of his motion. i am saddened if the honorable gentlemen is buffalo. i would not want him to remain in a state of nuisance for any time. i hope the secretary of state will elaborate and clarity will descend on the honorable gentlemen and all of the people of huddersfield. >> order. resume your seat. order. i don't require any lectures in democracy from any honorable gentlemen. i will remind the gentleman with the position is and it will brook no contradiction. >> his approach extended to parliamentarians past and present.

long serving member of this house said, it's about policies, not personalities. have made the point often, and make it again, that i tend to subscribe to the lord whitelaw in these matters. he famously used to say, it is better to cross bridges only when i come to them. i called sir john hayes. >> it won't be the same without him. ♪ >> john bercow announced his departure after servitors said --y would decline -- defying defied convention and put the candidate against him. 2017 election, i promised my wife and children that it would be my last. pledge that i intend

to keep. >> he made a statement to mps. increase theght to relative authority of this legislature for which i will apology forely no anyone -- to anyone. >> he became a figurehead of opposition to the government's toempt, later ruled unlawful suspend parliament for five scenesmid extraordinary at 20 past one in the morning. >> this is not a standard or normal progress. i will require some existence from you. -- assistance from you. i require no response from you. [shouting]

>> i require no response from you young man. i have made the point. topeople had the manners listen, which they haven't, i have played my part. this is not typical or standard. it's one of the longest four decades. it represents, not just in the minds of many colleagues, but huge numbers of people outside. i completely understand why very large numbers of members are much more comfortable staying where they are. mr. stewart, if you do not like it, you are perfectly entitled to your view. i couldn't give a flying

flamingo what your view is. thank you very much. >> mps who followed the speaker were booed. [booing] >> two weeks later, they were back after the supreme court agreed with the speaker and seemed -- who seemed even more emboldened by his coming departure. >> welcome back to our place of work. if not forback, long. the break did not appear to have calmed things. >>, yourself down. i am very concerned for you. minute -- is not. i told the gentleman what it is. don't mix it with the chair. >> the best thing about switzerland is not it's

chocolate or watches. the best thing about switzerland is roger federer. wife and to thank my my three children. for the support, stoicism and fortitude which they have displayed through thick and thin throughout the last decade. i will always be grateful for it. [applause] >> those were the brca 2 years -- bercow years. certainly not dull. international the circuit, perhaps he will --cover the merits of the merits of-- >> order. order.

♪ >> members of parliament have voted to hold a special general election on december 12 this means the parliament will be out of session for five weeks during the campaign. you can watch coverage of prime minister's questions when they return live on c-span2. >> next week, the house intelligence committee and chair impeachmentcontinue inquiries, beginning tuesday morning at 9:00 eastern on c-span3, watched live testimony from jennifer williams, 82 vice president mike pence and director for european affairs at the national security council, and a 2:30, investor kurt volker, the u.s. castle to

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announcer: congress faces a deadline this thursday to pass ace temporary spending bill in order to avoid a government shutdown. house majority leader steny hoyer and minority leader steve scalise discuss the budget process late last week on the house floor. >> madame speaker i am deeply disappointed. tothe senate's failure complete their work on appropriations forcing us to consider another continuing resolution. this is an evidence of failure not success. it is absently essential that we pass the cr to keep our government operating, but it is an indication that we have not gotten our business done as we should. i would remind house members that we passed 96% of the by june 20government 6, 2019, or approximately three month before the end of the fiscal year, little over three months.

by the end of the fiscal year, the united states senate had passed not a single appropriation bill. by that butnted recognize that passing a is essential. kick the can further down the road, we must use that time between now and december 20 for an agreement on three or to be allocations which will allow us to move appropriation bills in line with a bipartisan budget cap agreement. as we have been hearing about the cr, i expressible or disappoint and we have not been able to get the for your preparations bill agreed upon by both the house on the senate -- appropriations bill agreed upon by both the house and senate as we worked incredible he hard to get a bipartisan agreement. the objective to getting into your budget deal last year's congress was to ensure we can agree on levels of funding for our troops, which we did. to make sure that, instead of were able towe

have a full year spending bill agreed on both sides so we can give certainty to our troops. they are not getting the tools they need. but we have already agreed on the levels of funding. and yet they are still not negotiation this is a case where the house can sit back and wait for the senate to do something. where there's now a limited amount of time. i understand this will go through december 20. for a few more weeks, it is not a matter of waiting for the senate to come to an agreement between repelling and's and democrats. there, it is a matter of getting the house and senate in agreement. at some point, somebody in a the leader ship of the house majority will have to sit with somebody in the leadership of the senate majority. ever but he has their different parties and ideas and they will have to stay in that room until they get an agreement. it has happened before. it has to happened this time. it has not happened yet. i do not know if those honest, earnest negotiations are going between whoever in the house

majority will be in the lead position and whoever it is on the senate side, it might be the appropriations chairs, whoever has been designated. there has to be at commitment that they are going to go and sit in the room until they have figure out their differences. we have agreed on the number and passed a bipartisan to your budget deal for the purpose of making sure our military does not go in limbo. and these other federal agencies that are important that need to get the agreed numbers they can come to an agreement on and spent per the ultimate leak, we know the costs, we are hearing the cost from our military generals of cr and it is probably a billion dollars per month that they lose, they are not able to go and buy the equipment troops need when we are operating under cr. so i hope you get to that agreement .oon whoever it is on your site that is going to be the point person authorized to get a deal can go sit down with the senate and stay until they get that deal.

there are a lot of things going on here and we are not going to get into the impeachment and what has taken. i hope it is not taken away from the ability to get this agreement. announcer: this week the house and senate have to pass a temper a spending bill that would fund the government through december 20. -- a temporary spending bill. the measure we need to be approved by the house and senate and be signed by the president, to avoid a shutdown. current funding expires at midnight on thursday. congress is back in session monday. watch the house live on c-span and the senate life on c-span2. -- the senate life on season two. -- on c-span two. [washington journal] host: joining us from los angeles is radio talk show host dennis prager. thanks for being with us on this sunday morning. we appreciate it. guest: i appreciate your having