Today was the day that the 157th Speaker was elected by his fellow MP’s to be the Speaker of the House of Commons. The father of the house Alan Williams whom was elected in 1964, and is the current longest serving MP, announced that the secret ballots was open, Honourable members with the surnames beginning [...]
Today we witnessed history, for the first time in over 300 years, since 1695 to be exact the Speaker of the House of Commons was forced to resign. He announced he would stand down on Sunday June 21st and that there would be a secret ballot to select a new speaker on Monday June 22nd. [...]
