09 August 2024
With hundreds of newbies occupying the green benches, Westminster has been treated to a torrent of maiden speeches
In this week’s NLJ, Neil Parpworth, of Leicester De Montfort Law School, writes: ‘This influx of new faces has meant that already, maiden speeches are consuming a precious commodity: parliamentary time.’
Given more than half of all MPs are new, is this quaint tradition worth continuing? Can every single one of them really make a maiden speech?
Parpworth sets out the rules according to Erskine May, and observes sharp differences in approach among MPs.
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