Watch: John Bercow tells Corbynista to 'get a grip' during Autumn Statement

Last month relations between the Tories and John Bercow hit an all-time low as the Speaker called Sajid Javid ‘incompetent’ for taking too long to an answer a question. Well, David Cameron can at least take heart today that it’s not just the Conservatives who can find themselves on the wrong side of the Speaker. Today Corbynista Clive Lewis was scolded by Bercow for making too much noise during the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement.

As George Osborne announced the details of the Spending Review only to be heckled by Lewis, Bercow paused proceedings to address the Labour MP:

‘Mr Lewis, get a grip of yourself man — calm. Take up yoga, you’ll find it beneficial man.’

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While this went down well with the House, clearly Bercow wasn’t feeling very imaginative today. The Speaker appears to have developed a small obsession with yoga — regularly preaching its virtues to MPs:

2. In 2013, he told Tom Blenkinsop to calm himself down by taking up yoga.