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If the medicaments are innocuous, there’s little harm except to the patients’ pocketbooks.

Bercow’s international celebrity has been stoked by his flamboyant verbal style in Parliament and fondness for distinctively obscure words like “chuntering” and “medicament.”

No more will we hear Bercow’s advice that the right honorable gentle person from wherever “take a soothing medicament” and calm down.

Bercow invites overexcited members to take “their medicaments” or to step out of the chamber, and sometimes just yells “Zen!” to see if that will have any effect.

I have to bring every kind of instrument, every kind of medicament, everything you could think of in two bags: one large suitcase and one satchel that goes over my shoulders.