Cleverly Backs Commons Speaker as Almost 70 MPs Call for Resignation

Home Secretary James Cleverly has backed Sir Lindsay Hoyle as the House of Commons speaker faces mounting pressure to resign. By Friday morning, 68 MPs, more than a 10th of the Commons, had signed a motion over his handling of the Gaza ceasefire debate on Wednesday, with one more signature withdrawn. There is no formal procedure for removing a speaker, but in 2009 Michael Martin resigned from the post after it became clear he had lost the confidence of MPs across the Commons. Mr. Cleverly voiced his support for the speaker, who is a Labour MP for Chorley in Lancashire who became speaker in 2019, saying Sir Lindsay had “made a mistake” and “apologised for the mistake.”...