He is flanked by Black Rod, an Associate Serjeant-at-arms and a Clerk: they approach the Bar to bow three times.
“Do your job, for which you’re handsomely paid,” says one Conservative MPs as he heckles the Speaker.
Labour members attempt to stop Bercow leaving the Chair as they protest against the proceedings.
A High Court judge recommended that Bercow leave his post in order to allow institutional reform to begin.
He must neither sign an extension nor break the law. Which could leave only one road open to him.
Letwin versus Rees-Mogg, or Parliament versus the people.
Shouldn’t local Assocations have the right to select their candidate? It is far from obvious to us that the answer is no.
Gauke, Hammond, Burt and other rebels have little intellectual case for their actions; their moral or political rationale is threadbare.
But the odds of an early general election are shortening as each minute passes.
It was never possible to maintain exactly the same benefits of EU membership whilst walking away from the institutions and the rules.
Ultimately, all these questions are intensely political questions on which only the electorate can make a judgement – and now probably only in retrospect.
The former Justice Secretary is opposed to the suspension of Parliament, saying MPs should be sitting for more days not fewer.
“It’s a very simple plan,” says Shadow Brexit Secretary.
Andrew Marr asks him what will happen if Parliament passes a measure preventing a No Deal Brexit.
Two different conceptions of it are widely held in the UK, representative and direct. In 2019, they collide.