Bercow backs proxy vote on Brexit for pregnant Labour MP

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Speaker’s intervention comes after Tulip Siddiq says she will postpone caesarean section

 

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I hope this works- haven’t arrangements when MPs couldn’t attend to vote been abused in recent times?UKLabour

Hold on! We haven't forgotten what happened the last time there was a proxy vote - the proxy partner MP voted whilst the pregnant MP didn't joswinson TulipSiddiq

Surely the progress of the last few years with so many more female MPs meant things like this were already sorted? If not, then shame on them all, male and female.. Bearing children is normal and shouldn't preclude women from duties they mean to perform in any walk of life.

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She should get two votes surely?

Bercow is just making it up. Seems to think he is above the law. We have a constitution of which he is in breach. We need the judiciary to intervene.

The fact she feels the need to vote suggests the vote could go through

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