Original: In the 1997 General Election, Bercow was elected the MP for Buckingham and promoted to the shadow cabinet in 2001, holding held posts in the shadow cabinets of Iain Duncan Smith and Michael Howard.
Simplified: At the 1997 General Election, Bercow was elected the Conservative MP for Buckinghamshire. He served in the shadow cabinets of Iain Duncan Smith and Michael Howard.