Order! Bercow gets down to penning his memoirs

CONSOLING news for those who yearn to see John Bercow sail off into the proverbial sunset, if not eternal darkness.

The elfin speaker has, I can disclose, been taken on by a literary agent whose task is to find a publisher for his memoirs.

Bercow, 56, who previously insisted that he would stand down by June last year — nine years after his appointment as speaker — only to ‘reconsider’, explaining that he would stay on to ‘ see Brexit through’, is uncharacteristically dumbstruck when asked for details. ‘No comment,’ says his spokeswoman. Unlock!