Lynne Featherstone, MP for Hornsey and Wood Green, is asking readers of her blog for their views on who the next Commons Speaker should be:
I just don’t want it to be the traditional kind of same old same old that went before. If there was ever an opportunity for change and reform – this is the start of it.
Read more at Lynne’s Parliament and Haringey Diary.
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It has to be Sugar.
The next Speaker has to be someone with the most independent minded,individual `moral authority’ capable of keeping order and presiding over reclaimed integrity of H of C`s ,as the senior debating chamber, in the democratic world.
My nominees would include in order of preference
1.Sir Alan Beith as his `View From the North’ autobiography could yet add a further sunset chapter.
2.David Heath has a stentorian and resonant voice and would not suffer fools gladly. He also has impeccable moral authority and could do the job well.
3.Frank Field has always been the under worked and valued distant cousin,of the Labour Party, in this Parliament and could re-present himself, as a fair and judicious parliamentarian, whose interests go wider then so many of his partisan colleagues.
4.Susan Kramer is also of experience and independent strength of character.She has been a L/D Mayoral candidate and has travelled into the annals of the Capital.
5.Or it might be best to appoint Sir Alan Hazelhurst, whom already knows how to wield the mace,until a General Election and new Government is sworn.
I support the call for an immediate General Election and `Constitutional Reform Commission’ in any case.
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David Heath would make a great Speaker