Paging John Bercow (UPDATED)

I don’t know where John Bercow is having lunch right now, but a lot of people wish he’d switch his phone on. Perhaps thanks to Guido, there’s a rumour flying around Westminster that he’s the next to cross the floor and join Labour. Well, didn’t Ed Balls omninously suggest there are more Tory MPs out there, wavering to join Labour like Quentin Davies? I’ve had a Shadow Cabinet member phone me and ask if it’s true about Mr Bercow – Mr Bercow has a pro-Labour wife, apparently, and is known to wish Mr Cameron would go further in his modernising mission. I strongly suspect it’s nonsense – “an inverted pyramid of piffle,” as Boris would say. Mr Bercow has not been allowed to drift into the wilderness that Davies inhabited for so long. But this false alarm shows the high state of nerves in the Tory Party right now. You’re a bad man, Guido.