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Hello and welcome to the Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots, The Spectators Daily and these days more than daily politics podcast.

So John Burko is standing down as common speaker after 10 years in the job.

But what will his legacy be?

And what does the future hold for his successor?

I'm joined by BBC Parliament's Mark Darcy and the John Burko biographer

Bobby Friedman to discuss. So Mark, you're a very close watcher of Parliament as part of your job.

What do you think John Burko's legacy is going to be as he leaves the Speaker's Chair?

Well, there are two sides to it. On the plus side of the balance sheet, he's speeded up question times.

More MPs get in. He's allowed more urgent questions, more emergency debates, which means that

Parliament is kind of in the news agenda in a way that sometimes before him, it hadn't been.

You could have great events unfolding in the country outside and in SW1 it was

the committee stage of some incredibly tedious bill and everyone was droning away on that. Now, if there is a

great event going on, the chances are you will see a minister at the dispatch box giving the government's

view and the opposition and backbench MPs weighing in as part of any given news report on any given

great event. And that's meant that Parliament has had a chance to kind of rub its relevance

into the news agenda much more than it did before. So he's changed Parliament a lot in that way.

The downside has been, I think, that people now believe that the, how can I put it, the objectivity

of the chair is in question and needs to be restored, that he's had a tendency to get

dragged into too many personal arguments with MPs, even on his last day when he had spent

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