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Tuesday 20 October 2015 4:02 pm

The best reactions to Sajid Javid Vs. John Bercow

By: James Nickerson

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Business secretary Sajid Javid was earlier schooled by Speaker of the House John Bercow.

The remarks by Bercow came after a speech in which Javid was responding to a question from a Labour MP on the steel industry, following the announcement by Tata Steel that they were going to be cutting 1,200 jobs at its plants in Scunthorpe and Lanarkshire.

Read more: Tata Steel confirms 1,200 job cuts in Scunthorpe and Scotland

While Bercow said "on a one-to-one basis I always think [Javid is] a very civil fellow", Javid probably didn't take too kindly to the whole charade.

But that isn't how the UK felt about it. Here's the best reactions to Javid's telling off.

Sajid Javid reacts to Speaker John Bercow calling him 'discourteous and incompetent' pic.twitter.com/QYtnIwEff4

— Unnamed Insider (@Unnamedinsider) October 20, 2015

Here's me thinking that John Bercow had given Sajid Javid a right old slapping. I see it's only metaphorical. Unfortunately.

— LorraineHershon (@LorraineHershon) October 20, 2015

https://twitter.com/DonPundog/status/656485167633190912

If Wladimir Klitschko went to town on Mary Berry, it wouldn't be as brutal a slapdown as John Bercow gave Sajid Javid this afternoon.

— Jason (@NickMotown) October 20, 2015

This is why I love John Bercow and why the Tories hate him
Beautifully done
Nice slap down to the odious Sajid Javid.

— Eilís Breathnach (@bberrybeth365) October 20, 2015

That will probably be a lesson to any other ministers who might be tempted to overrun on their allocated time…

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