Honestly, he's been one of the better speakers in a long time. I don't even care if he's a Tory, when he's put to a job he does it.
risking the fury of hardline Eurosceptics who believe he wants to thwart a no-deal Brexit.
Hold on, the Speaker has the power to effectively block something as major as a no-deal Brexit?
Not really.
He's responsible for interpreting Houses of Parliament traditions / protocol and is as such responsible for decisions on Parliamentary schedules and voting.
Brexiteers don't like him because he's ruled against them a couple of times.
He's pretty scrupulous when it comes to sticking to Parliamentary tradition.
Orrrrrderrrrr
Not exactly, it's more that parliament has made it pretty clear that it's against a no deal so he's not going to let them twist the rules or defy parliament to get it. He didn't include it in the second round of indicative votes because it lost by a few hundred votes, while he did include the soft brexit/second referendum votes, which lost by far more narrow margins. This was seen as bias by people who don't understand that balance doesn't mean including each argument regardless of merit.
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