The speaker of the UK House of Commons, John Bercow, said that “an address by a foreign leader to both houses of Parliament is not an automatic right, it is an earned honor.” And he said that it is traditional for the speakers of both bodies of the Parliament to sign the invite for such a speech, and that he wouldn’t want to sign the invite.
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