Speaker of the House of Commons
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| Speaker of the House of Commons | |
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| Style | Mr Speaker (informal and within the house) The Right Honourable (within the Empire) |
| Member of | House of Commons Privy Council |
| Residence | Speaker's House, Palace of Westminster |
| Nominator | A simple majority of MPs |
| Appointer | House of Commons |
| Term length | Elected by the Commons at the start of each parliament and upon a vacancy |
| First holder | Oliver Newman |
| Deputy | Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons |
The Speaker of the House of Commons is the presiding officer of the House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of Great Britain.
List of Speakers of the House of Commons
| Portrait | Speaker | Term of Office | Session(s) | Party | Sovereign | |||
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| Start | End | Duration | ||||||
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Oliver Newman MP |
12 December 2018 | 15 September 2019 | 278 days | 1st Session 2nd Session |
Independent | Victoria II |
| The Founding Father MP |
15 September 2019 | 24 February 2020 | 163 days | 3rd Session | ||||
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James Stephenson MP Wales |
24 February 2020 | 1 June 2020 | 99 days | 4th Session | British Workers' Party | |
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Matthew Mountbatten PC MP Scotland |
1 June 2020 | 20 August 2020 | 81 days | 5th Session | |||
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Victor Newton MP York Center |
20 August 2020 | 20 September 2020 | 30 days | 6th Session | Victoria II | ||
| 7th Session | William V | |||||||
| Sarah Kerrigan MP Carlow-Kilkenny |
20 September 2020 | 8 November 2020 | 50 days | 8th Session | Independent | William V | ||
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Philip Ross MP Melbourne Ports |
8 November 2020 | 24 November 2020 | 17 days | 9th Session | British Workers' Party | ||
| Arthur Pendragon MP Macquarie |
24 November 2020 | 13 January 2021 | 51 days | Independent | ||||
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Henry Stewart MP Brighton Pavilion |
13 January 2021 | 25 January 2021 | 13 days | 10th Session | British Workers' Party | ||
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Andrew Wright PC MP Cities of London and Westminster |
26 January 2021 | 2 March 2021 | 36 days | ||||
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James Forsyte PC MP York Central |
3 March 2021 | 12 March 2021 | 10 days | ||||
| Mithrandir Olórin PC MP North Down |
12 March 2021 | 7 April 2021 | 27 days | 11th Session | ||||
| Kitsune DeCoppice PC MP Dwyfor Meirionnydd |
8 April 2021 | 4 May 2021 | 27 days | |||||
| Elizabeth Somerset PC MP St. James |
4 May 2021 | 21 June 2021 | 49 days | 12th Session | ||||
| Kitsune DeCoppice PC MP Dwyfor Meirionnydd |
21 June 2021 | 28 June 2021 | 8 days | 13th Session | ||||
| Horatio Nelson PC MP Macquarie |
2 July 2021 | 23 August 2021 | 48 days | |||||
| Anish Reddy-Jameson | 23 August 2021 | 30 October 2021 | 14th Session | |||||
| James Forsyte | 30 October 2021 | 7 January 2021 | 15th Session | |||||
| Anish Reddy-Jameson | 7 January 2021 | 26 January 2021 | 16th Session | |||||
| Joshua Veralius | 29 January 2021 | 16 February 2022 | ||||||
| Andrew Wright | 16 February 2022 | 23 April 2022 | 17th Session | |||||
| Charles Wright | 23 April 2022 | 11 July 2022 | 18th Session | |||||
| Albus Stuart-Windsor | 11 July 2022 | 17 August 2022 | 19th Session | |||||
| James Forsyte | 17 August 2022 | 7 October 2022 | 20th Session | William V | ||||
| Albus Stuart-Windsor | 7 October 2022 | 9 December 2022 | 21st Session | Elizabeth III | ||||
| Sirch Somersetx
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9 December 2022 | 3 January 2023 | 22nd Session | |||||
| Charles Somerset | 3 January 2023 | 2 February 2023 | ||||||
| Cameron Romefeller LT OM DBE PC MP West Dunbartonshire |
2 February 2023 | 12 March 2023 | 23rd Session | |||||
| Tobias Sherwood-Pembroke | 13 March 2023 | 26 March 2023 | 23th Session | Edward IX | ||||
| Elio Somerset | 26 March 2023 | 23 May 2023 | 24th Session 25th Session |
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| Alistair Romefeller PC MP Sutherland |
23 May 2023 | 4 June 2023 | 13 days | 26th Session | British Constitutionalist Party | |||
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Yeldon T. Wright The Baron Scarborough MP for North Yorkshire |
7 June 2023 | 26 July 2023 | 50 days | Liberal Democrats | |||
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Tobias Somerset The Baron Stafford MP for Stafford |
26 July 2023 | 18 September 2023 | 55 days | 27th Session | Independent | ||
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William Somerset The 2nd Viscount Douglas MP for Kensington |
18 September 2023 | 20 November 2023 | 64 days | 28th Session | Heron Party | ||
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Llywellyn Lleyton MP for Preseli Pembrokeshire |
20 November 2023 | 24 January 2024 | 66 days | 29th Session | Independent | ||
| 30th Session | ||||||||
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Josephine Carew-Grey Baroness Knightstone MP for Queen's Park and Maida Vale |
24 January 2024 | 5 March 2024 | 42 days | 30th Session | British Liberal Party | Edward IX | |
| Charles III | ||||||||
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Elio Somerset The Viscount Salisbury MP for Exeter |
5 March 2024 | 5 May 2024 | 62 days | 31st Session | Independent | Charles III | |
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Owain Carew-Grey Lord Knightstone MP for Blyth and Ashington |
5 May 2024 | 1 July 2024 | 58 days | 32nd Session | Unionist Party | ||
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Llywellyn Evans-Jones The Baron St Brides MP for Preseli Pembrokeshire |
1 July 2024 | 27 August 2024 | 58 days | 33rd Session | Independent | ||
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William Somerset The 2nd Viscount Douglas MP for Kensington |
27 August 2024 | 5 October 2024 | 40 days | 34th Session | Heron Party | ||
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Charles Wright The Baron Huntingdon MP for Orkney and Shetland |
8 October 2024 | 13 November 2024 | 37 days | 35th Session | British Workers' Party | ||
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Sir Frederick Wright MP for County Sligo |
14 November 2024 | 15 January 2025 | 63 days | 36th Session | Heron Party | Charles III | |
| 37th Session | George VII | |||||||
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Henry Somerset The Duke of Cambridge MP for South Cambridgeshire |
18 January 2025 | 31 January 2025 | 14 days | 37th Session | Unionist Party | George VII | |
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Charles Wright The Viscount Kirkwall MP for Orkney and Shetland |
1 February 2025 | 20 March 2025 | 48 days | 37th Session | British Workers' Party | ||
| 38th Session | Independent | |||||||
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Sir Philip Wright MP for the Cities of London and Westminster |
20 March 2025 | 21 April 2025 | 30 days | 38th Session | Independent | ||
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Charles Wright The Viscount Kirkwall MP for Orkney and Shetland |
21 April 2025 | present | 2 days | 39th Session | |||
Statistics
Longest Consecutively Serving Speakers of the Commons
| Speaker | Tenure |
| Oliver Newman | 278 days |
| The Founding Father | 163 days |
| James Stephenson | 99 days |
| Matthew Somerset | 81 days |
| Charles Somerset | 79 days |
| Andrew Wright II | 68 days |
| Llywellyn E.J. LleytonI | 66 days |
| Anish Reddy-Jameson I | 65 days |
| William SomersetI | 64 days |
| James Forsyte II | 63 days |
| Frederick Urquhart | 63 days |
| Elio Somerset | 62 days |
| Owain Carew-Grey | 58 days |
| Llywellyn Evans-Jones II | 58 days |
| Tobias Somerset | 55 days |
| Horatio Nelson I | 51 days |
| Serafina Sherwood | 50 days |
| Yeldon T. Wright | 50 days |
| Elizabeth Somerset | 48 days |
| Horatio Nelson II | 47 days |
| James Forsyte III | 46 days |
| Josephine Carew-Grey | 42 days |
| William SomersetII | 40 days |
| Albus Stuart-Windsor I | 37 days |
| Andrew Wright I | 36 days |
| Miann Bowes-Lyon I | 33 days |
| Albus Stuart-Windsor II | 31 days |
| Francis Olórin | 27 days |
| Sirch Somerset | 24 days |
| Kitsune DeCoppice I | 21 days |
| Victor Somerset | 19 days |
| Philip Ross | 17 days |
| Joshua Veralius | 17 days |
| Henry Somerset II | 14 days |
| Henry Stewart II | 13 days |
| Anish Reddy-Jameson II | 11 days |
| James Forsyte I | 9 days |
| Kitsune DeCoppice II | 7 days |