House of Commons Speaker Greg Fergus appears as a witness at a hearing of the standing committee on procedures and House affairs on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023.
In the United Kingdom, the Speaker of the House of Commons does not merely remove themselves from their party caucus — they cease all partisan activity. After being appointed to the post, the U.K. Speaker runs as an independent candidate in subsequent elections — and the major parties typically agree to not run candidates against them. The Conservative Party sent a note to supporters on Tuesday afternoon with the subject line, "Help fire the Speaker.
The Conservatives did have solid grounds to complain about partisan language in the ad. But Fergus's office quickly claimed it had nothing to do with how the Liberal Party promoted the event. By Tuesday afternoon, the party had publicly apologized to Fergus for attaching some partisan boilerplate to the event listing.
"The Liberal Speaker just THREW Pierre Poilievre out of the House of Commons," the party told its supporters. "The Liberal Speaker kicked me out of the House of Commons yesterday for telling the truth," Dancho wrote.This has been a particularly tumultuous period for the speakership and much of the strife can be traced to sloppiness and carelessness within and around the Speaker's office. But the other half of the story is an Official Opposition that apparently sees partisan advantage in fighting the Speaker.
When a Speaker in the U.K. leaves the post, they do not return to partisan politics. Typically they're offered an appointment as a "" to the House of Lords — the equivalent of an independent member in the U.K. Parliament's appointed upper house.
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