Sentences with phrase «delivered maiden speeches»

Three newly - elected barristers all delivered maiden speeches during yesterday's debate on the Queen's Speech which highlighted the failures of criminal justice policy under the previous Labour Government.

I made my first visit to the Alberta Legislature visitors gallery in 2 years to watch Environment and Parks Minister Shannon Phillips deliver her maiden speech as the MLA for Lethbridge - West.

In rising to deliver his maiden speech, Glyn Davies began by explaining why he is one of the last few of the new Conservative MPs to make his maiden speech (by my calculation, six of the 146 are still to do so - Fiona Bruce, Jonathan Lord, Stephen Metcalfe, Priti Patel, Dan Poulter and Julian Smith).

During the adjournment debate before the Commons rose for the summer recess on Tuesday, the new MP for the Essex constituency of Witham, Priti Patel, took the opportunity to deliver her maiden speech.

When he delivered his maiden speech in the Commons in June 2005, the new MP for Shipley insisted he did not want a job in government.

Delivering her maiden speech, she quoted «a personal hero» Tony Benn and urged Labour to work with the SNP in opposition.

Trump, while also delivering his maiden speech, in an unusual humble tone, pledged to be president of all Americans as against the violent tones that had pervaded his campaigns.

Alabama Sen. Doug Jones delivered his maiden speech on the Senate floor on Wednesday, tackling a topic that would seem anathema to most Southern Democrats — gun control.

So there you have it - all 147 new Tory MPs have now delivered their maiden speech.

In a break with convention, Conor Burns - who was elected MP for Bournemouth West at the general election - secured his own adjournment debate at the end of business on Thursday in which to deliver his maiden speech.

Delivering his maiden speech on Wednesday, former soldier and journalist Richard Drax — who gained Dorset South from Labour — said that he had entered public life because he could no longer «sit on my hands and watch our beloved country lose her pride.»

George Freeman won the newly - drawn Mid Norfolk seat at the general election and he delivered his maiden speech on Wednesday during a debate about jobs and unemployment.

Jonathan Lord, who stepped into Humfrey Malins» shoes as MP for Woking, began by explaining that he had hoped to emulate Margaret Thatcher by delivering his maiden speech last Friday during the Second Reading of his own Private Member's Bill (but it was not reached on the Order Paper).

[13] He delivered his maiden speech in the House on 2 June 2010.

Not exact matches

Here is video of Mr. Bhullar's maiden speech in the Legislative Assembly, delivered on Wednesday, April 16, 2008.

In his maiden speech — which, following a tradition now rarely observed, he waited a year after his election to deliver — Sasse argued that the upper house of the U.S. Congress was intended specifically by the framers to preserve minority opinion by enshrining a process of long - form debate to preclude a legislative fast track.

Delivering his speech at the maiden National Conference of Ex-MMDCES on Saturday, May 12, 2018, Mr. Mahama stated that the failure of the NPP government to create equal opportunities for all Ghanaians destroys the spirit of oneness.

Three of this week's maiden speeches delivered by new Conservative MPs featured particular praise for Baroness Thatcher.

Labour's new shadow chancellor John McDonnell managed to deliver his maiden conference speech without causing a run on the financial markets.

Two maiden speeches were delivered in the Commons yesterday by new West Midlands Conservative MPs.