Ten Things You Need to Know Today: 28 December 2022

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1. Turmoil damages respect for democracy

The speaker of the House of Commons said the public’s respect for democracy has struggled in the aftermath of Brexit and throughout a year of political turmoil, in which the UK was governed by three prime ministers. Lindsay Hoyle said Westminster had “never seen anything like it before” with the “disaster” of three PMs within three months. In an interview with BBC Radio 4’s PM programme, he said people were disappointed with what went on in politics and were left “wondering what was happening to our democracy”.

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