BRITISH MPs on Monday selected veteran Labor lawmaker Lindsay Hoyle to be parliament’s new speaker, replacing John Bercow in a role once little-noticed but now reshaped by the fractious turmoil over Brexit.

Hoyle, a Labor MP for 22 years and Bercow’s deputy since 2010, beat out six other contenders in a protracted day of voting in the House of Commons, winning the support of 325 of 540 members of parliament in a fourth and final round of votes.

Bercow, whose shouts of “Order! Order!” have rung out across the famous chamber since June 2009, stood down Thursday, having enraged the ruling Conservatives with a series of decisions they saw as trying to stymie Brexit.

The 56-year-old vehemently denied ever taking sides in the parliamentary tumult over Britain’s stalled withdrawal from the European Union, but earned praise from pro-Europeans and a global following with his rulings and outsized personality.

Hoyle, the favorite to fill his shoes ahead of Monday’s vote, won the first three rounds of voting — knocking out political heavyweight Harriet Harman, the longest-serving female MP — but each time fell short of the required absolute majority.

But in a last round of voting which pitted him against fellow Labor MP Chris Bryant, he finally garnered 60 percent of lawmakers’ votes.

“It’s about the challenges ahead for me and this chamber,” Hoyle told MPs after being dragged to the speaker’s elevated green chair, in keeping with parliamentary tradition.

“We’ve got to make sure that tarnish is polished away,” he added, in reference to recent rancor in the House of Commons largely over Brexit.

(SD-Agencies)