The United Kingdom has a new speaker after John Bercow stepped down.
Sir Lindsey Hoyle was voted in by members of parliament who made him pledge to be a non-partisan speaker as he dispenses his new job duties.
Mr Hoyle is an opposition member of parliament who was elected to the House on a Labour Party ticket.
He assured the MPs that he would be a neutral speaker.
Sir Hoyle was running against Chris Bryant.
In his speech he paid tribute to his daughter who lost her life in the year 2017.
Among those who congratulated the new speaker was prime minister Boris Johnson who held out hope that Sir Hoyle would be kind to the backbenchers.
"Mr Speaker, in congratulating you on your election I observe that you have prevailed over an extremely strong field and that every other candidate earlier on spoke forcibly and well," Mr Johnson said.
"And Mr Speaker, over the years I have observed that you have many good qualities, and I'm sure you will stick up for backbenchers in the way that you have proposed, and I'm sure that you will adhere to a strict Newtonian concept of time in PMQs, 'he added.
Sir Lindsay Hoyle is the only member of parliament who has refused to reveal how he voted in the 2016 referendum that determined the fate of Britain in the European Kingdom.