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Watch: Boris Johnson bids backhanded farewell to John Bercow

30 October 2019

11:26 PM

30 October 2019

11:26 PM

There is no love lost between John Bercow and Boris Johnson but the Prime Minister managed to bite his tongue as he bid farewell to the Speaker in the Commons just now.

Boris paid tribute to Bercow’s ‘Tony Montana scowl’ and called Bercow an ‘uncontrollable tennis ball machine’ for peppering parliament with his numerous interventions during debates.

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