The high reputation of Westminster abroad is not entirely reflected at home.

Being speaker has afforded me a unique opportunity to serve parliament, for which I am immensely grateful.

The group For Our Future’s Sake will tour key marginal constituencies to ensure first that young people register to vote then, second, that they use that vote tactically to keep their hope of a final Brexit referendum alive.

If Labour ends up on the scrapheap of history, it will do so because of its own foolishness and self-inflicted wounds. What party in its right mind would allow a combination of far-left enemies, militant trade unions and first-time supporters to decide its fate?

The function of parliament is to hold the executive to account. We should never overlook the primacy of parliament.