UK: Parliament speaker says will step down!

London: John Bercow, the speaker of Britain’s House of Commons, announced Monday that he would step down within weeks, amid criticism by Brexit hardliners who say he has twisted parliamentary rules to undermine them. 
Bercow said he would not stand again if MPs vote later Monday in favour of an early general election —and if they do not, as seems likely, he would resign on October 31: the scheduled date for Brexit.