{"id":31810,"date":"2018-03-11T01:05:31","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T00:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/03\/11\/bercow-should-step-back-as-bullying-probe-goes-on\/"},"modified":"2018-03-11T01:05:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T00:05:31","slug":"bercow-should-step-back-as-bullying-probe-goes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=31810","title":{"rendered":"Bercow \u2018should step back\u2019 as bullying probe goes on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker\u2019s former private secretary Kate Emms claims she was signed off sick after mistreatmentThe Commons speaker, John Bercow, should consider stepping back from the role while allegations that he bullied a female former staff member are investigated, senior MPs said last night.Claims that the Buckinghamshire MP, who has been speaker since 2009, shouted at and undermined his former private secretary Kate Emms, eventually leading to her being signed off sick, were aired last week in a BBC Newsnight investigation. Tory Mark Pritchard and Labour\u2019s Paul Farrelly were also accused of bullying. All three MPs deny the allegations. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2018\/mar\/11\/john-bercow-bullying-allegations-step-back-until-inquiry-over\" target=\"_blank\">Bercow \u2018should step back\u2019 as bullying probe goes on<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker\u2019s former private secretary Kate Emms claims she was signed off sick after mistreatmentThe Commons speaker, John Bercow, should consider stepping back from the role while allegations that he bullied a female former staff member are investigated, senior MPs said last night.Claims that the Buckinghamshire MP, who has been speaker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}