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	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Profile: John Bercow
		John Bercow first became involved in politics as a teenager having attended a school in Margaret Thatcher's Finchley constituency.
		It was during this time that Mr Bercow embarked upon a political journey not dissimilar to that of Michael Portillo, to whom he is politically very close.
		Mr Bercow noticeably abstained on the three line whip opposing gay and unmarried adoption in May 2002.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/3970871.stm (809 words)

	John Bercow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Simon Bercow (born January 19, 1963) is a politician and Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Buckingham in the United Kingdom.
		Bercow attended the University of Essex during the 1980s.
		Bercow rose quickly through the oppositio's junior ranks before joining the Shadow Cabinet in 2001 under the then party leader Iain Duncan Smith.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Bercow (942 words)

	Press release: John Bercow MP to speak on asylum and immigration
		John Bercow MP will give a public lecture entitled, Incoming Assets - the need for a new Conservative approach to asylum and immigration, at the University of Buckingham on Thursday 23 February.
		John Bercow believes that much of the debate on these issues was counterproductive and focused on policies which were wrong for the country.
		John will set out the case for a points based immigration system which will be simple, transparent and flexible so as to meet the needs of the British economy.
	www.buckingham.ac.uk /news/pressreleases/2006/bercow.html (324 words)

	New Statesman - The New Statesman Interview - Tory Boy
		Bercow was accused of hostility to working women and of insulting the Prime Minister's wife.
		Bercow clearly has no time for the moral crusade of his immediate boss, Ann Widdecombe, and her one-woman war on cannabis.
		Bercow is also in favour of the equalisation of the age of consent, while being himself "rampantly heterosexual" (currently unattached, applicants welcome).
	www.newstatesman.com /200011130010 (1589 words)

	Bercow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment she has made of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence preliminary recommendation that (a) temozolomide and (b) carmustine implants should not be used for the treatment of newly diagnosed high grade glioma.
		John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps are being taken by her Department (a) to increase and (b) to speed up access to radiotherapy for brain tumour patients.
		John Bercow (Buckingham):To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps are being taken by her Department to reduce disparities in care within the UK, with particular reference to treatments for brain tumour patients.
	www.theibta.org /Bercow.htm (565 words)

	BBC Online - On The Record - Interviews
		BERCOW: No, the important point was that he wasn't asked or entitled to look in any detail at the way things are done on the continent, four pages only of the report covered continental systems.
		BERCOW: On the basis of the evidence John, not on the basis of an abstract theory, not on the basis of a dogmatic prejudice.
		BERCOW: Iain rightly objected to the outrageous behaviour of the French government, its refusal to accept its responsibilities and its determination to dump on Britain.
	www.bbc.co.uk /otr/intext/20020609_int_1.html (2493 words)

	The ePolitix.com Charity Champion Awards 2006: Nominate
		We all agree that without John Bercow’s support to champion the cause of research into brain tumours, we might still be knocking on closed doors.
		John Bercow, MP for Buckingham, has championed the cause of tackling brain tumours ever since his constituent, Sue Farrington Smith of the charity Ali’s Dream, went to see him in January 2004.
		John Bercow has achieved a lot since January 2004 in raising awareness of the issues of the brain tumour community, for which we are extremely grateful.
	www.charitychampionawards.com /vote/articles/john-bercow.asp (351 words)

	Search: spoken by John Bercow (TheyWorkForYou.com)
		John Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations were received by her Department about the Al Yamamah military contract prior to the announcement that the Serious Fraud Office would end its investigation into the contract.
		John Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps are being taken by his Department to reduce imports of timber from Burma (a) to the UK and (b) to the EU.
		John Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions she has had with the Government of Israel on its recent operations in Nablus and the curfew it has imposed on the residents of Nablus.
	www.theyworkforyou.com /search/?pid=10040&pop=1 (946 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Profile: John Bercow
		John Bercow first became involved in politics as a teenager, having attended a school in Margaret Thatcher's own constituency of Finchley.
		In the early 1980s, when he was in his late teens, he was a member of the Monday Club, and even rose to the heights of being secretary of its Immigration and Repatriation Committee.
		Mr Bercow is a qualified tennis coach and tries to swim half a mile at least five mornings a week.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/2396507.stm (888 words)

	Our MP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In 1995, John was appointed Special Adviser to the Chief Secretary to the Treasury and later served as Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for National Heritage.
		John Bercow was elected as Member of Parliament for Buckingham in May 1997, with a majority of 12,386.
		February, John Bercow, MP for Buckingham, won the Channel Four/Hansard Society Political Award for Opposition MP of the Year for 2005.
	www.buckinghamconservative.co.uk /b3.htm (680 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/John Bercow
		John Simon Bercow (born January 19 1963) is a politician and Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Buckingham in the United Kingdom.
		Bercow shifted his politics, embressing social liberalism, at about the same time as his then colleague, Michael Portillo.
		As a backbencher he was openly critical of the leadership declaring that IDS was about as likely to "meet an Eskimo in the desert" as he was to win the 2005 General Election.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/John_Bercow (961 words)

	News: John Bercow MP visits the University
		Bercow, described as a leading moderniser, covered three main issues in his lecture: Conservative policy towards change and the myths which surround it; the importance of change for the party; and suggestions for changes which may return the Conservatives to power.
		Bercow suggested that if the “political pendulum” was to swing back in favour of the party, they would have to “aspire to govern the country as it is, and not as it was”.
		Bercow called for; a “convincing message” on international affairs and relations; to “champion trans-Atlantic relations”; promotion of peace in the Israel and Palestine states – issues the party needs to embrace to win back the core of the electorate.
	www.buckingham.ac.uk /news/newsarchive2004/bercowfeb04.html (323 words)

	JOHN BERCOW MP, FRONTBENCH TORY BACKS LEGALISATION OF CANNABIS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		John Bercow, the Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, said that legalisation of cannabis would help the party to "reconnect with millions of people who consider the present law to be an ass".
		Mr Bercow wrote the letter to Ann Widdecombe last July, before she quit as Shadow Home Secretary, when he was a member of her team.
		His allies said yesterday that the leak, almost a year after the letter was written, could be an attempt to embarrass him after a series of rows on issues such as the rights of gay couples to adopt to children.
	www.ccguide.org.uk /bercowmp.php (622 words)

	Basketball Web Page
		Welcome to the official website of John Bercow MP A recently-published book describes a politician with a "whining, sniveling voice" who nonetheless has visions of grandeur.
		John Bercow's farts stink almost as much as his views.
		I was reading in the Guardian a couple of weeks ago that John Bercow suggested the expulsion of Jim Davidson from the Conservative Party.
	johnbercow.20m.com (581 words)

	The Hindu : Tories woo minorities with an apology
		John Major has joined the liberal voices in his party in asking the leadership to look beyond the right-wing stiff upper lips and reach out to other groups - ``the fl and brown and yellow Britons who are as much a part of our society as I am.''
		John Bercow reflect the growing concern in the party that it has become too exclusivist, and that it cannot afford to sit back as Labour and Liberal Democrats run away with the ethnic vote.
		Bercow, who made an unexpected appearance at a fringe meeting, was all sackcloth and ashes admitting that the Tories had not made a ``significant'' attempt to dispel the impression that they were hostile to fls and Asians.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2000/10/04/stories/0304000j.htm (459 words)

	UBTC - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		John Bercow (Con), MP for Buckingham, Bob Blizzard (Lab) MP for Waveney and Steve Webb (LD) MP for Northavon invited their colleagues on behalf of the charities.
		Buckingham's MP - John Bercow, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development touched by the plight of families who have lost children to a Brain Tumour, has successfully applied for an adjournment debate to raise the issues of the Brain Tumour Community and to seek to establish a screening programme.
		John Bercow Shadow Secretary of State for International Development touched by the plight of families who have lost children to this dreadful disease, has committed to stage a debate in the House of Commons to raise the issues and seek to establish a screening programme.
	www.ubtc.co.uk /news.htm (3412 words)

	Comment - Archives 21JAN02
		John Bercow, MP for Buckinghamshire, decided to write a 'New Year' letter to Conservative Party members in his constituency - a charming and courteous thought, one might have imagined.
		Mr Bercow also commented the Conservatives were in the "worst state" he could recall and must "adapt or die".
		News of Bercow's letter also clashed with a major speech Duncan Smith was due to give the same day that the story broke; reportedly he was furious and it is further reported that he instructed Mr Bercow not to give media interviews.
	www.billcameron.net /cmar2002/comment1020121.html (1893 words)

	Tories for Socialism \| Samizdata.net
		Either way, 'Conservative' MP John Bercow, once regarded as a radical free-marketeer, opens his heart to the Guardianistas in an article which is, shall we say, thought-provoking:
		John Howard gives me the shits a lot of the time, but thankfully he's not this spineless.
		Rumour has it that Mr Bercow (former chairman of the FCS if my memory serves me correctly) may not be a Conservative for very much longer.
	www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/002655.html (1156 words)

	Powerful Case for Gay Marriage, Says Tory \| Partnerships \| News \| Gay.com UK
		Mr Bercow, a prominent Tory right-winger, said there were intellectual and ethical arguments for civil registration of partnerships.
		Mr Bercow said the Tories had no plans to introduce civil registration, later adding that he was not arguing they should.
		Mr Bercow said no one wanted to expose pupils to unsuitable material on either gay or straight sex.
	uk.gay.com /printit/662 (409 words)

	The Scotsman - Angry Tory leader flays rebel lieutenant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Clearly irritated by the comments made by John Bercow, the shadow chief Secretary to the Treasury, the Tory leader insisted his party shared the decent and tolerant values of the British people.
		In a letter to his Buckinghamshire constituency, Mr Bercow had claimed the Tories were in the "worst state" he could recall and must "adapt or die".
		Mr Duncan Smith had hoped the debilitating leadership battle, which pitched the Bercow modernisers against the Duncan Smith traditionalists, had been laid to rest as the party found a new unity, based on the shared platform of righting the wrongs in the public sector.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=68912002 (649 words)

	Dodgeblogium » Blog Archive » EU Con exposed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		John Bercow, a long-standing critic of European integration and associate of the Bruges Group, seeks to analyse the history of subsidiarity and rebut the claim that the EU Constitution safeguards the role of national Parliaments.
		According to John Bercow it also enables the EU to further expand its power to unprecedented and virtually limitless proportions.
		In conclusion John Bercow argues that “It is time to stop and to reverse the ratchet whereby the United Kingdom is drifting towards a European State.
	andrewiandodge.com /index.php/archives/2003/11/10/902 (871 words)

	Conservative Party - Profile
		From 1986 to 1987, John served as National Chairman of the Federation of Conservative Students, and in 1987 he was appointed by Norman Tebbit as Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Collegiate Forum to head the campaign for student support in the run-up to the 1987 general election.
		1n 1995, John was appointed Special Adviser to the Chief Secretary to the Treasury and later served as special Adviser to the Secretary of State for National Heritage.
		John was elected as Member of Parliament for Buckingham in May 1997, with a majority of 12,386.
	www.conservatives.com /tile.do?def=people.person.page&personID=5048 (382 words)

	The Skakagrall: John Bercow on Burma
		John Bercow initiated a parliamentary debate on and#8216;Human Rights (Burma)and#8217; on 15 June (in connection with the 60th birthday of Aung San Suu Kyi on 19 June).
		At the close of an excellent speech detailing the background to human rights violations in Burma, he said: and#8230; it is a great indictment of the House that, so far back as records can be traced, not one ministerial oral statement has been made in Parliament about the abuse of human rights in Burma.
		John Bercow initiated a parliamentary debate on ‘Human Rights (Burma)’ on 15 June (in connection with the 60th birthday of Aung San Suu Kyi on 19 June).
	www.skakagrall.com /archives/000489john_bercow_on_burma.html (454 words)

	Aylesbury Today: Campaigns & Issues
		Buckingham MP John Bercow has requested the meeting following an article John Prescott wrote to The Bucks Herald, which was published a fortnight ago.
		Mr Bercow’s letter read: “As you know, David Lidington and I have expressed concerns about the way in which the expansion of Aylesbury Vale will take place and, in particular, we have asked questions about the extent of the Government’s commitment to finance the necessary infrastructure.
		The Government’s housing minister, Yvette Cooper told Mr Bercow in the House of Commons last week that she would be prepared to meet a local delegation from Aylesbury Vale.
	www2.aylesburytoday.co.uk /growthagenda/mpdemandsmeeting.html (377 words)

	Damascene, John - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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		They need our help'; John Bercow Shadow Secretary of State for International Development.(News)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-x-d1amascen.html (246 words)

	CRIN - Child Rights Information Network - Resources -
		The report is supported by the No Place for a Child Campaign of which Save the Children is a leading member.
		Colette Marshall, UK Director of Save the Children, said: “John Reid cannot defend a policy that has such a damaging effect on children when viable alternatives exist.
		John Bercow MP, co-author of the report, said: "A lot of Home Office effort and taxpayers' money is wasted locking away vulnerable families.
	www.crin.org /resources/infodetail.asp?id=9212 (366 words)

	toryleadership: Bercow attacks David Cameron for "Eton, hunting, shooting and lunch at Whites"
		At the risk of mentioning yet another straw man, Bercow's implicit assertion that Davis was merely focusing on tax, Europe and immigration is a classic example.
		Bercow's comments, isn't it sad that at the start of the 21st Century we're reverting to character assassination.
		Bercow is one of few Tory politicians that has recognised the country has changed....
	conservativehome.blogs.com /toryleadership/2005/09/bercow_attacks_.html (4609 words)

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