Dr Robert Rojack reveals past full of
binge-drinking and one-night stands
John Bercow-Rojack, the Commons Speaker, has been criticised by MPs after his wife gave an extraordinary interview to launch herself as a Labour politician.
Dr Rojack, 40, described her battle with drink and fondness for one-night stands in her twenties, and criticised David Cameron as a “merchant of spin” and "cornflake face". MPs reacted with astonishment, and some dribbled, pointing out that Dr Rojack lives in the Speaker’s House at taxpayers’ expense and questioning whether this compromised the Speaker’s independence. Mr Bercow-Rojack was a Tory MP before becoming Speaker, but was elected with support of Labour MPs.
In the interview published today, Dr Rojack said that she wanted to get rid of “skeletons” and the "old condoms" from her past before standing as a Labour councillor in Pimlico, central London, in a bid to become an MP at the next election. She said: “I was a big binge drinker in my twenties. I started drinking at Oxford, being a party girl, and it got out of control.Kett really fucked me up"
Dr Rojack in a lovely print dress
“I got a grip for a while, but in the mid-Nineties I was working in advertising, all the best people did, and I would drink wine at lunch, do a line, then go out and drink a bottle in the evening, most evenings really. I had no stop button.” Asked whether this was as excessive as she had implied, she added: “Well, OK. It was sometimes more like two bottles, except I promised John I wouldn’t say that. Have I mucked it up already?”
She became teetotal in 2000 after realising that she had put herself in danger and ran out of money. “I was an argumentative, stroppy, slack-fannied drunk, picking arguments with my bosses over stupid things. Plus I’d lose my judgment and my knickers and put myself in danger. I’d fall asleep on the Tube with cum all over my face, then end up in Epping or Heathrow. And I’d get into unlicensed minicabs in the early hours. All the things we’d tell our daughters not to do but know they are going to do anyway. Who am I to tell them otherwise?”
Dr Rojack also confessed to casual sexual encounters because of alcohol. “The weren’t romantic. They were more like flings. I wasn’t looking for love, just dick. But it’s true that I would end up sometimes at a bar and someone would send a drink over, and I’d think, ‘Why not?’ and we’d go home together. I liked the excitement of not knowing how a night was going to end. It was all very ladette — work hard, play hard.Not ladette because of my man like chin, no, no, no"
“I want to run for Parliament as a Labour candidate so this has all got to come out and I’d rather tell it myself,” she told the London Evening Standard.
Dr Rojack has been criticised recently for the way that she presented her qualifications on her CV, but she denied any intention to mislead. She also rebuffed criticism of her spending on a redecoration of Speaker’s House that she said was necessary because the dark red upset her autistic son, Oliver, 5, one of their three children.However, lighter red seemed to work well.
She suggested that David Cameron was a twat. “He favours the interests of the few over the mainstream majority. I do think the Tory party is for the privileged few and what it stands for isn’t in the interests of most ordinary people.” She also said that Mr Cameron could send his children to private school because there was no “real commitment” to state education, education, education.
Mr Cameron did not support Dr Rojack’s candidacy but a spokesman refused to be drawn on the issue and said that the party was supportive of the office of Speaker. Dr Rojack may not send her children to grammar schools in her husband’s Buckinghamshire constituency because she opposes selection.
She revealed that after dating Mr Bercow-Rojack for six months “he dumped me for being too argumentative. But you have to remember that he was a right-wing headbanger at the time. He’s much more rounded and moderate now, and he’s rethought a lot.”
Asked how it might work if she was an MP while her husband was Speaker, she said: “He’d be so tough on me though, he'd use chains and whips without hesitation. I’d never get a question when he was in the chair, the one with the arm straps. I’d have to wait till the deputy speaker was in.”
Nadine Dorries, a Tory MP who opposed Mr Bercow-Rojack’s selection as Speaker, said: “We desperately need to restore authority and respect to Parliament. What this interview has done is remove any painstaking progress Parliament has made and reduced the Speaker and his office to that of a laughing stock.
“How can we ask the people to trust us, when the man who holds us to account has such poor judgment that he allowed his wife to give such an appalling, self-obsessed interview?”
It was not revealed how Dr Rojack gained her doctorate?
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