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Outgoing House of Commons Speaker John Bercow is not leaving Parliament without yelling "order!" just a few more times. Several of those directives came on Monday as the speaker tried to preside over the latest Brexit tête-à-tête between Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. Tensions are getting extremely high now that the UK is about two months out from the latest official date when it will finally separate from the European Union. Parliament is still without a deal, having rejected former Prime Minister Theresa May's agreement with Brussels an historic three times. Meaning, a no-deal Brexit...

Labour MPs held an impromptu socialist singalong in the Commons this morning as they boycotted the prorogation ceremony in protest at Boris Johnson's decision to shut down parliament ahead of Brexit. In scenes captured on video by shadow minister Danielle Rowley they sang the protest song The Red Flag which is the party anthem and is usually performed at the end of each of its annual conferences. Its lyrics hail the fight for workers' rights, saying it was used to shroud the bodies of 'our martyred dead'. In the footage the MPs could be heard singing the chorus lines: 'Though...