Sentences with phrase «maiden speech from»

Meanwhile, Tuesday saw a maiden speech from Sarah Newton the newly - elected Conservative MP for Truro and Falmouth.

Wilson made his maiden speech from the Treasury bench speaking for the government, as a minister, on the amenities and facilities for MPs.

Monday this week saw the maiden speech from Julian Smith, the new Conservative MP for Skipton and Ripon.

Meanwhile Wednesday saw a maiden speech from the first Conservative MP for Carlisle since 1959.

Not exact matches

On Tuesday, Simon Reevell — who gained Dewsbury from Labour's Shahid Malik — gave his maiden speech in the Commons.

During Thursday's deliberations on the Budget debate, George Eustice, who won his home seat of Camborne and Redruth from the Lib Dems, gave his maiden speech and called on the Government to harness a culture of enterprise:

In his maiden speech in the Lords, Labour's former election strategy chief Spencer Livermore said it was a «curious anomaly» that the bill would leave trade unions as the «only organisation in Britain prohibited from harnessing technology to modernise their own democratic procedures».

Labour MP John Woodcock was quick out of the traps to accuse the Labour leadership of distracting from the growing Tory unease over tax credits, as articulated by Heidi Allen in her maiden speech:

Mike Weatherley, who won Hove from Labour at the election, used his maiden speech last Thursday to celebrate the local contribution to the British music and film industries:

Laura Pidcock won rave reviews from many of her party's supporters for her maiden speech, with one colleague comparing her the formidable Labour politician Aneurin Bevan.

Her categorical rejection of the government's actions, in her maiden speech in the Lords, provoked clear satisfaction from those around her.

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.»

Arriving in the Commons with the election that brought Margaret Thatcher into office, he used his maiden speech to defend shipbuilding from the political incursions of a Conservative government.

Conor Burns uses his maiden speech to highlight the absurdity that potential English language students from overseas have to learn the language before they can come to Britain... to learn the language

Stephen Gethins, from the SNP, is the second new member to make his maiden speech tonight.