I have decided that I will relinquish the office of Speaker on Sunday 21st of June.

This will allow the House to proceed to elect a new Speaker on Monday 22nd of June.

As you just heard, the Speaker of the House of Commons will stand down on the 21st of June. As you just heard, the Speaker of the House of Commons will stand down on the 21st of

June. My name is Jude Crocker, and in order to get a clearer understanding of the process of

electing a new speaker, I spoke to Chris Stanton, Clark of Divisions, and responsible for

organising the ballot of the speaker. I started by asking Chris

Stanton when the election would be held. It's going to be on the afternoon and probably into

the evening of Monday the 22nd of June and nominations are going to be received in the morning

of that day and then the house will meet at 2.30 and begin by hearing

addresses by each of the candidates who are standing and then it'll move to a series of ballots

until either there are no candidates in the running except one or one candidate has more than 50% of the vote in one of the ballots.

And who can stand as a candidate for the speaker?

Any member can stand, but they do need to meet some requirements.

They need to have at least 12 nominations in support of them from other members and not more than 15, but 12

is the minimum. And three of those have to be from members who were elected for a different

party from the candidate themselves. So there is some measure of cross-party support for

each candidate. And who's going to preside over the actual proceedings of the day?

The standing order that governed the system for electing a speaker

describes the person taking the chair as that member present in the house

and not being a minister of the Crown who has served for the longest period continuously

as a member of this house.

So it's the person who is known

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