[Crimson Dynamo]

• Donald Trump has been invited for state visit to the UK this spring or summer
• John Bercow said he would deny Trump honour of Westminster Hall speech
• Commons Speaker railed at 'racism' and backed an 'independent judiciary'
• Many MPs cheered and applauded his intervention in the chamber last night
• But Bercow faces backlash from critics who say he has undermined neutral role
• Tory MPs accuse him of 'grandstanding' and are considering no confidence vote

John Bercow is facing a desperate battle to hang on to his job amid a major backlash over his 'grandstanding' decision to ban Donald Trump from addressing parliament.

Furious Tory MPs are considering forcing a vote of no confidence in the Speaker after an extraordinary intervention in which he branded the US President 'racist and sexist' and said he would not authorise the use of historic Westminster Hall during the impending state visit.

But there is a mounting backlash from politicians condemning Mr Bercow for abandoning the Speaker's traditional neutrality and wading into international politics.

Tory backbencher Alec Shelbrooke accused Mr Bercow of 'grandstanding' and 'student politics of the worst kind'.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...Trump-ban.html


The Daily Telegraph says today: John Bercow does not speak for Britain, just for his own monstrous ego

excellent article about this here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2...monstrous-ego/