Let’s move Westminster to Manchester, and reclaim democracy | Simon Jenkins

Parliament is unfit for purpose, physically and ethically. A change of location could jolt politics into the 21st century

Good man, John Bercow. The Speaker of the House of Commons is what management gurus call disruptive; it means sound. Just six weeks from an election, he said on Tuesday that MPs needed £3bn from the taxpayer to tart up their offices and rid them of mice. The press reacted as if he were offering massage parlours to prisoners. How dare he pander to those pampered M...