John Bercow | How should you handle workplace bullies?

Former Speaker at the House of Commons, John Bercow, has been reprimanded for breaching Parliament’s bullying and harassment policy, following an investigation by the Independent Expert Panel (IEP).

The IEP found the bullying to be so bad that Bercow has been banned from holding a Parliamentary pass. Labour has suspended him as a party member pending its own investigation.

A controversial character who earned the ire of his former party, the Conservatives, for his anti-Brexit stance, Bercow has strongly denied the accusations, many of which go back over a decade. He described the IEP’s investigation as a “protracted, unjust, and amateurish process. It’s been a kangaroo court and saying it’s a kangaroo court is extremely insulting to kangaroos.”

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