Sir Lindsay Hoyle MP, the speaker at the House of Commons, was in Finchampstead last week.
He was responding to an invitation from Wokingham MP Clive Jones to visit Elusive Brewery and Siren Craft View in Hogwood Lane Industrial Estate.
He poured and sampled the award-winning Oregon Trail at Elusive, and was given a guided tour of the brewing and canning facilities at Siren.
During the visit, he sat down for an exclusive chat with Wokingham Today.
He said the visit to Finchampstead has been: “.. absolutely. fantastic”.
Asked if his role as Mr Speaker is more like a school headmaster or a football referee, he said: “tt must be easier in school, because I have the worst behaved class anywhere in the world.
“I know who the bad people are. You know the naughty children.”
Asked about his weekly appearance at prime minister’s questions, he said: “I try to use a bit of humour, I try to coach them.
“It’s about just trying to keep the levels right.
“I try to be fair to everybody in the house, whether one MP for a single party or whether you’ve got multiple MPs. I try to treat everybody equally.”
Sir Lindsay is also known for having a menagerie of pets named after former prime ministers.
He said:” We’ve got Maggie the tortoise, with a hard shell and who is not for turning.
”We’ve got Boris the parrots. He repeats himself a lot, and his feathers are all over the place.
“We have also got the cats, Clem and Atlee.”
He added they spend time in hisnconstituency in Chorley, and also at Speaker’s House in Westminster.
\He said: “When someone comes to visit, they’re always asking if they can meet the cats.
“These guys are much more famous than me.”
