John Bercow: This was the moment fellow Conservative MPs refused the Speaker of the House of Commons a standing ovation

Conservative MPs, of which John Bercow is one, refused to stand and clap their party colleague after he announced his intention to stand down as Speaker of the House of Commons and MP for Buckingham on October 31, 2019 at the latest.

Mr. Bercow has been a Conservative party M.P. the constituency from Buckingham since 1997.

The 56 year-old said he made a promise to his wife and three children that the 2017 general election would be his last.

Mr. Bercow described his 10 years as Speaker of the House of Commons as the "greatest honour" of his professional life.

The Labour party, the Liberal Democrats and the Scottish National Party honoured Mr. Bercow with a standing ovation however the majority of his fellow Conservative party M.P.s remained seated with some of them even refusing to clap.

Mr. Bercow is an unpopular figure for many Conservatives who, in the event of no new offer from the European Union, support prime minister Boris Johnson's intention to take the U.K. out of the E.U. with no deal.

Labour party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, described Mr. Bercow as a "superb speaker