Sentences with phrase «traditional maiden speech»
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.
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«If I myself have a political ambition, it is — perhaps I may ask the House's traditional indulgence for a maiden speech — to suggest a cross-departmental project to my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Work and Pensions and for Defence.