LONDON (JTA) — Britain’s Parliament for the first time elected a Jewish speaker of the House of Commons.
John Bercow, 46, a Conservative lawmaker, was elected Monday in a secret ballot.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown in congratulating Bercow noted that he was the Parliament’s first Jewish speaker.
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