Former UK parliament speaker Bercow joins opposition Labour Party

The former Conservative MP launches blistering attack on PM Johnson, calling him ‘a lousy governor’.

John Bercow, the colourful former speaker of Britain’s House of Commons, has left the Conservatives to join the opposition Labour Party, launching a blistering attack on Prime Minister Boris Johnson. In an interview with the Observer newspaper published on Sunday, the former MP said the Conservative Party under Johnson was “reactionary, populist, nationalistic and sometimes even xenophobic”. Bercow, who stepped down as speaker after 10 years in October 2019, said he joined the Labour Party a few weeks ago because he shared its values.