Sir Lindsay Hoyle has been elected the new House of Commons Speaker by MPs.
In the fourth and final round the 62-year-old MP for Chorley in Lancashire won the contest to succeed John Bercow with 325 votes compared to the 213 votes his Labour colleague Chris Bryant won.
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Cheers rang out when the result was announced by Ken Clarke, the Father of the House.
MPs have voted in favour of @LindsayHoyle_MP as the new Speaker of the House of Commons, with 325 votes.
— UK House of Commons (@HouseofCommons) November 4, 2019
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Scot, Dame Eleanor Laing, was knocked out in the third round, winning 127 votes.
Boris Johnson was the first to congratulate Sir Lindsay from the Dispatch Box, saying his attributes included "signature kindliness and reasonableness" and sticking up for backbenchers as well as, he hoped, a Newtonian adherence to time at PMQs.
The Prime Minister also paid tribute to Mr Clarke for his 49 years' service to Parliament.
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