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| John Bercow cuts Cameron off at Prime Minster's Questions | John Bercow cuts Cameron off at Prime Minster's Questions |
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| Speaker John Bercow cut David Cameron off at Prime Minister's Questions, telling him he had said enough. | Speaker John Bercow cut David Cameron off at Prime Minister's Questions, telling him he had said enough. |
| Mr Cameron was in the middle of mocking Ed Miliband's new US elections adviser after heated exchanges with the Labour leader over Royal Mail privatisation. | Mr Cameron was in the middle of mocking Ed Miliband's new US elections adviser after heated exchanges with the Labour leader over Royal Mail privatisation. |
| Mr Bercow called rowdy MPs to order, prompting the PM to shout: "I haven't finished yet!" | |
| A grinning Speaker replied, after a pause: "In response to that question the prime minister has finished." | A grinning Speaker replied, after a pause: "In response to that question the prime minister has finished." |
| Mr Bercow was presiding over a particularly noisy question time session and had already warned Labour MP Fiona Mactaggart over her behaviour, telling her that as an "as an illustrious product of Cheltenham Ladies College" she should know better. | |
| The Speaker is campaigning to cut noise levels at Prime Minister's Questions and end what he has called the "yobbish" behaviour of backbench MPs. | |
| But his intervention in Mr Cameron's reply to Ed Miliband could further fuel tensions between the two men, and add to claims of bias by Conservative MPs. | |
| Ed Miliband used all six of the questions he is allowed at Prime Minister's Questions to challenge David Cameron about City investors who were given a "golden ticket" to buy Royal Mail shares and then sold them just after it was privatised. | |
| Claiming taxpayers had been "ripped off," he asked how the firms had become involved and why they were allowed to sell immediately when postal workers had to wait three years. | |
| The prime minister insisted the privatisation of Royal Mail had been a success and said Mr Miliband was reading from the "same old Labour" script. |