MPs have been getting it in the neck this week for 9p mileage claims, but this is something to really get peeved about. Some top digging by Press Association has found John Bercow billed the taxpayer £172 to be chauffeur-driven to a conference at Carlton House Terrace, just 0.7 miles from parliament. And that’s not all:

• Bercow used an official car to travel to Canterbury to see Justin Welby enthroned in 2013 – at a cost of £524

• He travelled 1.5 miles to dinner at the Dorchester Hotel, billing £144

• Somehow managed to blow £168 travelling from King’s Cross to Speaker’s House

• Billed £367 to be driven to the University of Bedfordshire, where he gave a lecture on reforming parliament and warn about the consequences of the expenses scandal

• Kept a chauffeur-driven car waiting while he attended a memorial service for Malcolm Wicks in Croydon, costing £289 for five hours

He is the “reforming Speaker”…