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Speaker John Bercow criticised over Donald Trump comments

Hall Speaker John Bercow has been censured for voicing his restriction to US President Donald Trump tending to Parliament amid a state visit.

Senior Tories told the BBC his remarks had brought about a considerable measure of outrage, with one saying it was "totally unbelievable" and others saying he ought to be unprejudiced.

Mr Bercow said "resistance to prejudice and sexism" were "gigantically essential contemplations" for the Commons.

US Congressman Joe Wilson said it was a "slap" to Mr Trump's Republican Party.

BBC political reporter Eleanor Garnier said it was an exceptional and uncommon reprimand - a conciliatory censure that adequately implies President Trump won't be welcome to address MPs in Parliament.

Mr Bercow is one of three "key holders" to Westminster Hall, alongside the Speaker of the House of Lords, Lord Fowler, and the Lord Great Chamberlain, an innate companion responsible for specific parts of the Palace of Westminster.

The Lords Speaker will address peers on the issue on Tuesday, yet every one of the three must concur all together for a deliver to happen.

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A month ago, Prime Minister Theresa May said President Trump had acknowledged a welcome from the Queen for a state visit to the UK in the not so distant future.

'Bolster for equity'

Nonetheless, reacting to a state of request in the Commons on Monday, Mr Bercow said he was against the president tending to both Houses of Parliament - as other global pioneers have done.

He said tending to Parliament was "not a programmed right", but rather an "earned respect" for outside pioneers.

"I feel firmly that our restriction to bigotry and sexism and our support for correspondence under the watchful eye of the law and an autonomous legal are enormously essential contemplations in the House of Commons," he told MPs.

His remarks were commended by Opposition MPs, yet senior Conservatives were exceptionally basic.

One anonymous Tory MP and previous bureau part told the BBC that Mr Bercow "must be near remaining down", while another said his remarks went "path past what is satisfactory".

Another said it was a shame to the Commons and had brought on a considerable measure of outrage.

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