Buckingham MP and Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, has denied penning a sleazy guide to talking women into bed.

Reports in the national press that he was the author of The John Bercow Guide To Understanding Women were mistaken, he said.

The guide, which in-cluded tips on enticing drunken women between the sheets, was published in a magazine for young Tories in 1986.

But Mr Bercow, whose constituency includes Wing, Aston Abbotts, Cub-lington, Stewkley, Win-grave and Edlesborough, said in a statement it had been a parody of him at a time when he was chairman of the Federation of Conservative Students.

According to reports, the guide included the advice that "women will settle for anything that breathes and has a credit card" and as a chat-up line suggested "if you're free later maybe we could go back to your place and name your breasts".

The article, which appeared in a publication called Armageddon, re-surfaced last week.

In a statement, Mr Bercow, said: "There has been some confusion in media reports about the so-called John Bercow sex guide.

"This article was not written by me but about me, mocking the fact that I was the last person likely to express the sentiments cited in the piece.

"I made this clear when the story first surfaced 23 years ago and am doing again now."

The article was brought up again after the Speaker's wife, Sally Bercow, confessed in a press interview to binge drinking and casual sex when she was in her 20s.

But Mr Bercow said his wife, a former Tory activist who has been a member of the Labour Party for more than a decade, was an "independent person" and her campaign was neither "odd" nor "embarrassing" for him as a Tory MP. He added that her comments would not affect his ability to chair Commons debates in an impartial fashion.

Tory Mid Beds MP Nadine Dorries, however, said the couple's admissions could be the first nail in the Speaker's political coffin.

She said: "When a new Parliament sits, we MPs, at a strategic moment, have the opportunity to shout 'no' when the motion to reinstate the Speaker is announced. I reckon it's going to be a fairly loud chorus. Who cares about Sally Bercow's past?

"Do we really believe she was concerned that one of her one-night stands, from a booze-fuelled liaison, sometime in her long ago past was going to surface and spill the beans?

"The Bercows cannot distance themselves from the harm this interview has done. How can we trust the man expected to set the standards in Parliament, the person who holds us to account, to have any sort of judgement when he obviously must have thought this interview was a good idea?"