Sentences with phrase «maiden speech»

They will ceremonially welcome him into the second chamber as of parliament and he will make maiden a speech in the future.

We also offer a guide to how to write a good maiden speech on p34.

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.

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Moving and important maiden speech from @heidiallen75 in the House.

«Mark Harper quizzed about whether historic boundaries will be observed in review of Commons constituencies Main Stephen Metcalfe makes his Commons debut in support of the Academies Bill as Rory Stewart makes a second maiden speech»

Her impressive maiden speech just days after being elected shows Ellen's oratorical and political skill.

Badenoch was born in Wimbledon in 1980 but grew up in Nigeria and briefly in the United States before moving to the UK at 16, a point she noted in her award winning maiden speech.

The Conservative MP whose maiden speech helped to derail George Osborne's tax credit cuts has vented her frustrations with the Tory party machine.

The treatment of war veterans was also the subject matter for Mercer's memorable maiden speech, for which he was applauded across Westminster.

Her naive maiden speech was manna from heaven for both Jeremy Corbyn and Tory critics of the Chancellor.

He spoke in the Commons for the first time on 21 May 1997 and in an otherwise traditional maiden speech, joked prophetically about refusing to be intimidated by the Whips.

While the author ridicules the idea, and it is true, Ms. Weingarten's maiden speech did not provide detail (yes, the devil is often in the details), the idea has considerable saliency among significant segments of the education and policy communites.

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

Stephen Metcalfe makes his Commons debut in support of the Academies Bill as Rory Stewart makes a second maiden speech

He made an impressive maiden speech and has not been backward in pushing the government to do more for veterans.

He devoted a chunk of his maiden speech to challenging the notion that further regulation is needed for credit cards, arguing two - thirds of Canadians pay off their balances every month, meaning they incur no interest at all, and that credit cards account for just 5 % of total household debt.

In the United States, Congress has largely favoured stimulus over austerity (new House Speaker John Boehner vowed to change this in his maiden speech), but a growing number of cash - strapped states and cities is stoking the same kind of sovereign debt fears that are rippling through Europe.

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 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.

I mentioned it in my maiden speech to Parliament in 2010 because of its unique situation.

Plymouth Moor View MP Johnny Mercer is an ex-Army captain who picked up The Spectator's speech of the year award for his maiden speech focusing on the treatment of war veterans.

The South Cambridgeshire MP used her maiden speech to suggest the tax credit cuts were a «betrayal of Tory values» and berated George Osborne's «single minded» determination to achieve a budget surplus.

None of this group was more devastating than Heidi Allen, who has been in the Commons nearly six months and yet still hadn't made her maiden speech.

Former Liberal Democrat MP Phil Willis, who once chaired the science and technology select committee, used the occasion to make his maiden speech as Lord Willis of Knaresborough, and said the bill should go even further.

The former solicitor also set out her socialist credentials in her maiden speech in 2015.

Johnny Mercer, who picked up The Spectator's speech of the year award for his maiden speech in 2015, recently polled his constituents in a bid to find out whether they wanted the UK to remain in the European Union.

As she declared in her maiden speech: «Women have got a vote now and we mean to use it.»

She delivers her maiden speech on 12.2.15.

She showed true determination, declaring in her maiden speech that the country was «ripe for drastic drink reforms».

She highlighted the uncomfortable truth that Labour did not win back the Copeland seat lost earlier in the year when Jamie Reed abandoned ship even though the Tory that beat him was so low key she only made her maiden speech days before the last parliament was wound up.

He made his maiden speech on 4 July 1997.

Thornberry made her maiden speech in the House of Commons on 24 May 2005.

And as Jo said in her maiden speech as an MP «we have far more in common with each other than things that divide us».

When a freshly - appointed Baron feels able to devote his maiden speech in the upper house to a condescending de haut en bas attack on commoners for being too damn posh, it's entirely clear that Britain's outdated honours system produces some rather rum results.

At the 2001 election he was elected with a majority of 16,362, and gave his maiden speech in the House of Commons on 4 July 2001.

Morgan made her maiden speech in Parliament on 22 May 1997 in the debate on the Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill, designed to pave the way for devolution.

Clive Lewis made his maiden speech in June 2015.

I already noted the maiden speech delivered last night in the Commons by Glyn Davies, during the first ever debate initiated by the newly - created Backbench Business Committee.

During his maiden speech last Wednesday, Richard Graham, who gained Gloucester from Labour, spoke about the perils of youth unemployment:

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).

Glyn Davies, who beat Lembit Opik, delivers his maiden speech in the first ever debate initiated by the Backbench Business Committee

I remember telling Lady Thatcher a couple of years ago that he had not made his maiden speech, having been in the Lords for nine years at the time.

«Perhaps the hon. Gentleman is not aware that his noble Friend Lord Heseltine has not even made his maiden speech in the House of Lords.

Chris Skidmore attacks Labour MPs during his maiden speech for trying to blame the country's current problems on the events of the 1980s as Chris White laments the fact that choosing to work does not always pay

Mark Garnier, Simon Kirby, Julian Sturdy and Gareth Johnson all set out their scepticism about further European integration in their maiden speeches

Angela paid full tribute to Baroness Chalker during her maiden speech to Parliament whom she described as a «popular and well respected MP».