The Speaker of the Commons on the challenges of his first year: Covid, Brexit, respect for MPs … and some unparliamentary leaks
Lindsay Hoyle is in high spirits as he reels off a list of challenges that the past 12 months have thrown his way, since he became Speaker of the House of Commons last November. “No sooner had I been elected than we went into a general election,” he says. “Then in the election I decided to develop Type 1 diabetes.
“Then it was Brexit. Then Brexit was whisked off platform one, and along came Covid.”
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