article_snippet: When SNP MP Dr Eilidh Whiteford asked the next question, on claims that the Tories are planning to cut 30,000 jobs from the Department for Work and Pensions if Pensions win the next election, a woman minister simply replied: 'For the sake of brevity and clarity, those figures are not true at all.'
article_snippet: John Bercow added: 'That was exemplary brevity and clarity, I must concede.'
article_snippet: Mr Bercow regularly interrupts during Commons debates to ask for contributions to be as short as possible so more MPs can have so more MPs say.
article_snippet: John Bercow is an increasingly divisive figure in Parliament after being appointed in 2009 after a secret vote with the Tories the Tories accusing John Bercow of being biased towards Labour.
article_snippet: But John Bercow has defended Mr Bercow controversial record by arguing that Mr Bercow moves to modernise the Commons have got parliament 'off his moves to modernise the Commons knees'.
article_snippet: Prime Minister said: 'To be honest, it is not as simple as that.