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		</div><p>The Conservatives will field a candidate against Commons Speaker John Bercow at the next general election, UK Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom has said.</p>
<p>The Speaker of the Commons is an MP who stands in general elections but is usually unopposed by the major political parties.</p>
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<p>“Give us back an impartial Speaker,” Ms Leadsom said.</p>
<p>Her comments come days after MPs backed a motion to take control of the Commons timetable to pass legislation to block a no-deal Brexit.</p>
<p>Ms Leadsom has accused Speaker John Bercow of breaking the rules of Parliament by allowing MPs to take control of Commons business.</p>
<p>In a stinging attack, Ms Leadsom said Mr Bercow had “failed” in his role and had permitted a “flagrant abuse” of parliamentary process.</p>
<p>Writing in the <i>Mail on Sunday</i>, Ms Leadsom said the Speaker’s role was to be “a politically impartial, independent umpire of proceedings” who was in place “to protect the constitution and oversee the behaviour of the House”.</p>
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<p>“But last week, the current Speaker failed us,” she claimed.</p>
<p>Ms Leadsom said that by allowing MPs to use Standing Order Number 24 – a procedure used to trigger emergency debates – as a means of taking over Parliament’s timetable, Mr Bercow had not “just bent the rules, he has broken them”.</p>
<p>She said the Conservative Party, in a breach of convention, would field a candidate in Mr Bercow’s constituency of Buckingham at the next election as a result.</p>
<p>She added: “What we saw on Tuesday was a flagrant abuse of this process.</p>
<p>“The standing order No.24 that the Opposition proposed wasn’t appropriate for a Motion.</p>
<p>“It was intended to ram through legislation for purely political motives.”</p>
<p>She said use of the standing order in such a way would lead “to the creation of bad laws” and acted as a “complete disregard to the will of the people”.</p>
<p>Ms Leadsom, who served as Leader of the Commons for almost two years, has clashed with Mr Bercow in the past.</p>
<p>In May last year the Speaker was alleged to have labelled Ms Leadsom as a “stupid woman”, as well as calling her “f****** useless”.</p>
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<p>In March, Mr Bercow reprimanded Ms Leadsom for using her mobile phone during Commons business, while Ms Leadsom later accused the Speaker of failing to show MPs “courtesy and respect”.</p>
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