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Page last updated at 20:32 GMT, Monday, 22 June 2009 21:32 UK

'Young' Bercow mocks Tory grandee

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New Commons Speaker John Bercow has made fun of those grandee MPs who are concerned at his relative youth.

Mr Bercow was speaking before the ballot which he went on to win with 322 votes to his rival and fellow Conservative MP Sir George Young's 271.

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