John Bercow has been snubbed in the New Years honours, as it is believed he will not be automatically offered a peerage, after finally stepping down last month.

Sources suggest Boris Johnson had planned to exact revenge on Mr Bercow for his ‘bias’ over Brexit by denying him a seat in the Lords.

Allies of the Prime Minister said he would rip up the convention that Commons Speakers are automatically elevated to the upper chamber when they resign, in the same way Mr Bercow repeatedly ignored parliamentary precedent when dealing with Brexit.

Zac Goldsmith and Nicky Morgan were both recently handed life peerages but a Cabinet Office spokesman today said peerages have not been given out in the New Years Honours since 2001.

John Bercow has become the first Speaker in 230 years not to be offered a peerage after he finally stepped down last month

A government source said: ‘No one in this Government will be rushing to give Bercow a peerage. He likes to think of himself as a reforming Speaker, yet he’s been dogged by scandals and given up any pretence he is impartial.

'With bullying claims, his Brexit bias and a willingness to ride roughshod over established procedures, this Speaker has undermined public faith in Parliament.’

Reaction to the news on social media was mostly positive, with several people citing his breaches of impartiality and 'anti-Brexit bias'.

The move to deny Mr Bercow a peerage comes after he tore up the Commons rulebook to allow backbenchers to seize control of the agenda and pass a law delaying Brexit before the general election.

Mr Bercow entered Parliament in 1997 and took the Speaker’s chair in June 2009, promising to serve ‘no more than nine years’. He abandoned that commitment ahead of the 2017 snap election, but allegations of bullying by former members of his staff, denied by the Speaker, led to fresh calls for him to quit

But his successor Sir Lindsay Hoyle has said that the Mr Bercow, who held the Speakership for 10 years, 'deserves' the honour.

Sir Lindsay said Mr Bercow – seen as a controversial figure, especially by Leave supporters – had done some 'great things' during his 10 years spent refereeing MPs' debates and argued he should be rewarded in the same way other speakers had after retiring.

'My view is every speaker has been offered a peerage, so custom and practice says that's what's always happened,' Sir Lindsay told Pienaar's Politics on BBC Radio 5 Live.

'It doesn't have to be taken but, personally, I think if that has always happened then we should continue with that.

'I think it should be offered to him. He has served the House, he served for 10 years, he did some great things. And that's what makes the difference.'

Allies of the Prime Minister said he would rip up the convention that Commons Speakers are automatically elevated to the upper chamber when they resign, in the same way Mr Bercow repeatedly ignored parliamentary precedent when dealing with Brexit

The 62-year-old, who recently revealed he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes shortly before the general election, said he did not want to compare himself with Mr Bercow but suggested he would have a 'different style'.

'What I've always said is, it is not about comparisons – far from it,' he added.

'What it is about is style and we all have different styles. I'm the 158th Speaker to the House and my style will be different.

'Each one of us have brought a different way of doing things and we have that different style.'

In recent months Mr Bercow had come under fire for a series of controversial rulings which were widely considered to favour Remain supporters.

He voted Remain in the 2016 referendum, and his wife’s car bears a ‘b******s to Brexit’ sticker. The Speaker is supposed to be neutral.

In 2009, Gordon Brown faced controversy approving a peerage for former Speaker Michael Martin, who stood down after an expenses scandal.