FURY as Labour nominates John Bercow to the House of Lords!

In a move that has sent shockwaves across the UK Political Spectrum The Times broke the bombshell last night:

Tom Watson, who was deputy Labour leader under Mr Corbyn, is also to receive a peerage in the forthcoming dissolution honours list.

In December, a Number 10 source said “no one in this government will be rushing to give Bercow a peerage”.

Instead he is said to have made it onto an eight-strong list of candidates for the upper chamber being put forward by Jeremy Corbyn when he steps down as Labour leader later this year.

But it is unknown if he will sit as a Labour peer or a crossbencher, having entered Parliament as a Tory MP.

Bercow was also repeatedly accused of bullying behaviour by former staff members while in office, something he strongly denies, making Labour’s decision to reward him with a peerage all the more surprising.

The party declined to comment on the claims, and his prospective nomination could still be vetoed as the House of Lords Appointments Commission must vet all nominees as well as the furore on social media of this appointment.

But relations between the pair appeared to have cooled when Mr Watson announced he was quitting as an MP before the election.