and the other two were conservatives: dame eleanor laing and sir edward leigh.ach given five minutes make their pitch. most chose to highlight how they would do the job differently from john bercow. the first to speak was one of the current deputy speakers, dame rosie winterton. as deputy speaker, i have seen tempers rise if there is too much disruption of business. urgent questions are an important innovation of our last speaker. but i've seen members become frustrated, having worked hard on a speech only to end up being squeezed by the three—minute time limit. urgent business must be debated when it is urgent. but pmqs and statements should not take hours. neither should pmqs. i'm standing because i love parliament and i believe in parliamentary democracy and i want to do things properly. that means being a speaker who has absolutely no favourites. a speaker who believes in standing by the rules. somebody who is completely impartial, who knows that erskine may inside out and back to front, i have got it lying by my bedside. a speaker... all right, all right. a

dame eleanor laing, 113. sir edward leigh, 12. dame rosie winterton, 46. for each of the candidates to carefully consider their position, and then come to inform me if they wish to in —— withdraw from the ballot. and we would have to have new ballot papers printed before we actually go to the next round of printing. but the present position is that the house is now adjourned again, and in ten minutes‘ time, i will announce the candidates who are proposing to proceed to the second round of the ballot. oh, heck. they have to print more ballot papers for the next round. this does take a long time. i did warn you , this does take a long time. i did warn you, last time it took hours and hours to go through this. i do think that ken clarke should write out the ballot papers himself. that could be quicker. lindsay hoyle, eve ryo ne could be quicker. lindsay hoyle, everyone had said in advance, was the clear favourite. everyone had said in advance, was the clearfavourite. some had predicted he might get to 50% in the next round. now it is all about seeing what hap

dame rosie winterton. harriet harman withdrew, and eleanor laing was fifth to go, leaving two labour mps in the run off.tes cast for each candidate was as followed, chris bryant, 213. sir lindsay hoyle, 325. but that's not quite the end of the rather lengthy process. i invite sir lindsay hoyle to take the chair of the house. it's traditional for the speaker elect to appear reluctant to take thejob, so he or she is dragged to the chair. labour's caroline flint and the conservative and former deputy speaker nigel evans doing the dragging this time. the tradition comes from the fact that the speaker has to communicate the opinion of the commons to the monarch — and, in the past at least, if the monarch didn't like the message, he or she might — literally — shoot the messanger. once in position, lindsay hoyle spoke to mps. it is about the challenges ahead for me and this chamber. i stand by what i said and i stand firm that i hope this house will be once a great respected house not just in here but across the world. we have to make sure that tarnish is polished away and the respect and tolerance that we exp