Fallout London’s Robot Speaker of the House Played by UK’s Actual Former Speaker of the House [IGN]

Expansion-sized Fallout 4 mod Fallout London has already secured the likes of Baldur’s Gate 3’s Neil Newbon for its voice cast but now has announced that, bizarrely, former UK Speaker of the House John Bercow will star, too.

As reported by VG247, Fallout London project lead Dean Carter revealed in Fallout London’s Discord that its post-apocalyptic version of the UK capital will still have a Speaker of the House (the member of parliament who chairs debates between political parties), and in true Fallout fashion the position is now held by a robot.

But who’s voicing that robot? Bercow, of course, who served as Speaker of the House from 2009 to 2019.

“Imagine being Fallout London and feeling so lucky having all the talented voice actors on the team, but then boosting it further with the fact that we have [two] Doctor Who actors as VAs… then Neil Newbon messages us and also wants a role,” Carter said in the post. “But the cherry on the top? Who better to represent our mod’s version of the Speaker of the House, than a robot version voiced by John Bercow himself?”

The role will seemingly be Bercow’s first foray into voice acting but those looking forward to it shouldn’t have too long to wait. Developer Team FOLON declared earlier in July that “the end is in sight” for the highly anticipated mod.

Fallout: London was previously due to arrive on April 23, 2024 but actual Fallout developer Bethesda announced a surprise update for Fallout 4, which the mod developer feared would impact its release.

Carter later lamented how Bethesda, which has made clear it’s aware of Fallout: London, failed to inform Team FOLON of its plans. “That has, for lack of a better term, sort of screwed us over, somewhat,” Carter said. Meanwhile, GOG has confirmed to VG247 that Fallout London won’t be playable via Epic Games Store-bought copies of Fallout 4 at launch because the storefront doesn’t support update rollbacks.

Fallout London is one of the most high-profile mods in development and will let players engage with everything from “stuffy parliamentary aristocrats to a resurrection of the Knights of the Round Table to an uncompromising cult of revolutionaries.”

Bethesda development chief Todd Howard has confirmed Fallout 5 will arrive after the Elder Scrolls 6, which is still years away itself, though massively multiplayer online game Fallout 76 continues to be updated.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll talk about The Witcher all day.