Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index John Simon Bercow (born January 19, 1963) is an English politician, and Tory member of Parliament for Buckingham. He had a promising career, but resigned as Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, under Iain Duncan Smith, in protest at forcing Conservative MPs to vote against their conscience and oppose a Bill that would allow unmarried couples to adopt children. He had previously said that there was a 'powerful case' for the introduction of same-sex marriages in the UK, and in October 2003, attacked Duncan Smith at the Conservative Party Conference. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.