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We've just heard from Peter Hain, now it's former leader of the house Jack Straw giving his valedictory speech. He calls for more reform of parliament, despite the fact that reforms that have been made, which have made government more accountable to parliamentarians. He says Prime Minsiter's Questions is in urgent need of reform. As a first step he calls for PMQ's to return to two 15 minutes sessions on a Tuesday and a Thursday as they once were, before further reforms can be introduced.

Speaker John Bercow pays tribute to Mr Straw telling him he "leaves this place a highly-regarded figure" a possible reference to the recent Telegraph sting in which Mr Straw and Conservative MP Malcolm Rifkind became embroiled.

A parliamentary candidate has been suspended by the Liberal Democrats after he was arrested over child sex abuse allegations.

Jason Zadrozny was standing in the Ashfield and Eastwood constituency in Nottinghamshire.

Police said the allegations related to one child. Get the full story here .

Here's a video of the emotional moment Speaker John Bercow announces the results of a vote to try and change the rules on electing Commons speakers.

tweets, external : Grubby Tory coup attempt against the Speaker rightly defeated - William Hague's parliamentary career ending in a sad & tatty fashion

Tweets, external : Game, set and match Mr #Speaker

Tweets, external : Gordon Brown says he's going to "fight, fight, fight" for this country. Did Cheryl Cole write his leaving speech?

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"Now 32 years on, it is for others to judge between then and now what I have achieved," Gordon Brown says. He says he leaves parliament but not public life. But that he remains concerned about the future of the country.Our greatest successes have come not when we have looked inward, he warns."We must never allow ourselves to become spectators, watchers on the shore," he adds.

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Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown uses his last Commons appearance to tell MPs that while he is leaving the House he will "fight and fight and fight again" against the separation of the union between Scotland; and against social injustice.

"The UK today is fragile and it is at risk," from separation, he says. "Countries at their best are more than place on a map and more than demarcations of borders."

For the UK to lead in the world, its various parts must "work together". The best countries stand on "shared foundations" and with the wealth of the nation justly shared, he says.

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Before the result was announced Labour MPs loudly cheered, knowing they had won the vote. When Mr Bercow shouted "order", as is customary before the start of a vote, a shout could be heard from Tory benches: "You won't be saying that in a month."

We're into the valedictory speeches by retiring MPs. And there's a nice gag from former prime minister Gordon Brown who says it is traditional for MPs to give up their allegiance to their political party on becoming Speaker of the House of Commons. "You, Mr Speaker, gave up your party allegiance long before," he quips.

Tweets, external : The look on Bercow's face, pure theatre, some voters may find anguish & fury expended on HoC internal affairs baffling tho

Unprecendented scenes in the House of Commons. Speaker John Bercow is struggling to fight back tears of his own now as the result of the division is read out amid claps and cheers from MPs. The 'Ayes' to the right 202, the 'Nos' to the left 228. The motion is defeated.

It's going to take a few minutes to count everyone through so we're looking at a result being announced at 13:35 GMT. In case you missed the recent BBC series 'Inside the Commons', what happens is those who vote 'yes' for a bill/motion go into one room and those who vote 'no' into another and there is a physical headcount as they enter the room.

That's it the motion has been put to the house. And it's split with enough "Ayes" and "Nayes" "shouted to make it unclear which side has won. So the Speaker has no choice but to call a division. They're off to vote.

David Winnick uses the point of order procedure to try to push William Hague into withdrawing the motion. Mr Hague remains in his seat on the front bench - indicating he does not wish to respond.

SNP Pete Wishart intervenes to propose that the question "not now be put" - a procedural device which could cut the debate short. Speaker John Bercow takes some advice from his clerk, and advises Mr Wishart it wouldn't work in this case. Lib Dem David Heath - a former Commons deputy leader - pops up with an alternative: for William Hague to withdraw the motion. Shouts of "withdraw" can be heard from the Labour benches. Mr Hague declines to respond. There hasn't been anything like this in the Commons since the European Arrest Warrant vote fiasco last November.

I'm touring the UK looking at the costs and benefits of immigration - today I've come to Sheffield University, focusing on the debate about foreign students in Britain. This is a city which now boast two universities and here at least they’ve found themselves caught up in an immigration clampdown by the UK government which said it wanted to stop foreign students using their studies as a backdoor route to immigration.

The decision has certainly ruffled feathers. Graduates have just four months to find a job and it has to pay more that £20,500 a year for them to be allowed to remain. Its estimated that Britain earns more than £7bn a year from foreign students so there’s a lot at stake. I spoke to three students at the university to get their thoughts., external

tweets, external : Gove is summoning individual Tory MPs for "fireside chats" re Bercow. Desperation creeping in?

Taking us on a trip through history (as far back to the days of Charles I's reign), Gordon Marsden, the Labour MP for Blackpool South, notes that previous Speakers have been beheaded but "none of them had ever been stabbed in the back before on the floor of this House". He says the government motion being debated today is "a trumped up device" designed simply to attack the Speaker.

tweets, external : @Mike_Fabricant reminds Wm Hage of #Bercow 's support for votes by secret ballot for @HouseofCommons elections