Lindsay Hoyle right to say faith in politics shaken by events of 2022: The Yorkshire Post says

Sir Lindsay presents himself as a stickler for the rules who chooses his words carefully.

So when he says in a broadcast interview that the “disaster” of three Prime Ministers in three months combined with a “bizarre” revolving door of Ministers has left the public questioning what has happened to democracy in this country and turned the nation into an international laughing stock, it is worth taking notice.

The Speaker, who presided over much of the drama that dominated the Commons over the last 12 months, appeared to suggest in a BBC interview that the UK was still recovering from the divisions of Brexit and that had been “part of the problem” affecting the issues that have arisen this year.

There is of course an argument that Westminster politics has actually proven its robustness this year, albeit rather chaotically.

Both Boris Johnson and Liz Truss were correctly forced into resigning their posts after being judged by their Parliamentary colleagues as unfit for office for different reasons.

However, the central point made by Sir Lindsay, that 2022 has been a year where public faith in politics has been further shaken, is indisputable.

If those in Government and the House ofCommons can begin to conduct themselves inthe way the public expect of those in high office, there can be some hope that 2023 will prove to be a more dignified and constructive year in Westminster.

It is the least the public will expect at a time of immense economic anxiety for millions.