Apparently Mr Speaker’s other half, Mrs Sally Bercow, is running for a seat in the house. She wants to be a Labour MP. God only knows why, but it doesn’t matter to me if she wants to run for the Monster Loony Party.
Mr Speaker is a Conservative MP. Because he is also Mr Speaker, he has to be impartial, at least in the house.
Mr Speaker gets what is known as a Grace and Favour house, because to do his job he really has to be in the house. Tradition does not allow a holographic representation to be put up on the wall with an auto-order-order device when the troughsnouters start to get lairy.
It is not unreasonable for Mr Speaker’s wife and kids to cohabit in the house. In this context, they live at home.
I could run for a seat if I wanted to. I don’t. But, if I did, I could run from a house, a boat, a shed, a rented office or from the top of a tree.
Mrs Bercow can’t, apparently. “Chaps” have decided that she can’t. Presumably the partner of Mr/s Speaker has never wished to run in the past.
So, if she wants to run, and it is her right, she has to move out, with or without her family.
That is just plain daft, in my most humble opinion.
If you have a different opinion, and you are of independent mind, I’d like to know.