Bercow backers: ‘grammar school boys, gays and Cameron-haters’

If you think all the Tories will quietly move on from the election of the Speaker, forgive and forget, think again.

Feverish work has been going on amongst some front and backbenchers compiling a list of the “secret Bercow supporters” – MPs they think backed Bercow in the final round if not the second.

They think they have identified 15 to 20 of them. There have been only three public Conservative supporters that I know of (apologies if this is wrong and I’ve forgotten someone).

One Tory frontbench MP described the list of secret Bercow supporters as “grammar school boys, gays and Cameron-haters.” Not very reformed, you might think.