A number of platform speakers described how certain behavioural traits have become labelled as either feminine or masculine and how societal behaviour norms tend to influence the expectation and demonstration of these traits. (social.hays.com)
He had some pithy, blunt points to make, but essentially this was an industrial - strength injection of morale - booster into a party that has spent a year on the floor from one of the best platform speakers in modern British politics. (theguardian.com)
He's probably the best platform speaker in the party at the moment and he's fizzing. (theguardian.com)