The former speaker of the British
House of Commons
,
John Bercow
, announced this Sunday that he was leaving the Conservative party and has launched violent criticism of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, whose party, according to him, has become "reactionary" and "xenophobic". .
Under
Johnson
, the
Conservative Party
has become "reactionary, populist, nationalist and sometimes even xenophobic,"
Bercow
, 58, said in an interview with
The Observer
newspaper
.
Bercow joined the Conservatives at age 17, and was a Conservative MP for 12 years.
In 2009 he was elected president of the
lower house
of parliament and then he was no longer affiliated with any party, as usual.
After leaving office in October 2019, this Sunday he announced that he will join the ranks of
the opposition
Labor Party
, where he hopes to overthrow the government.
"The conclusion I have come to is that this government must be replaced. The reality is that the
Labor Party
is the only way that can achieve that goal. There is no other credible option,"
Bercow
said
.
On
Boris Johnson
, he assures that he was "good at campaigning, but terrible at leading" and affirms that "more and more people are fed up with the lies, fed up with the empty slogans."
When he was Speaker of the House, his cry of
"Order! Order!"
the deputies who interrupted him became famous all over the world.
But his own conservative side had accused him of trying to prevent
Brexit
by making decisions in favor of those who wanted the
UK to
remain in the
European Union
.
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