Ban on breast feeding lifted
The new Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle is already making a name for himself after allowing female MP's to breastfeed in the House of Commons for the first time.
The Speaker said, "it would be wrong for him to ban it in the Chamber", he went on "I'm of the view there isn't a policy, my view is that it is up to a mother."
The Speaker added: "I think it would be wrong for me as a man to dictate on that policy. If it happens, it happens. I wouldn't be upset by it."
Baroness Boothroyd, the former Speaker, ruled in 2000 that breastfeeding could not take place in the Chamber or committee rooms. Sammy Wilson, the DUP MP, had previously described breastfeeding in the Chamber as "exhibitionism".
Dame Eleanor Laing, the Deputy Speaker, last year also said breastfeeding in the Chamber was "not necessary" when asked whether she would allow it while running for Speaker. Campaigners have called for breastfeeding in the Commons to allow female MPs more flexibility.
Under John Bercow (former speaker), MPs were allowed to bring their babies into the Chamber and voting lobbies.
Sir Lindsay Hoyle was elected as the new Speaker of the House of Commons, succeeding John Bercow who held the role for more than a decade.
The 62-year-old Labour MP for Chorley, the only candidate who refused to say how he voted in the 2016 EU referendum, became the 158th Speaker after beating six others in a secret ballot of members.
An avuncular Lancastrian, Hoyle has promised to bring calm to a chamber that has seen divisive and bad-tempered debates over the UK's failed attempts to depart from the European Union.
He added: "I think people reflected on the way the Chamber carried out, the way we were speaking to each other, the threats, the intimidation, it was not a nice place." His comments came after fresh complaints of alleged bullying by Mr Bercow, who has denied all allegations.
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