Dominic Raab and Bob Blackman celebrate the new Government’s belief in civil liberties in their maiden speeches

Dominic Raab, the new MP for Esher and Walton (and author of the excellent The Assault on Liberty: What Went… Read more »

Jacob Rees-Mogg identifies the three historical heroes from his constituency who will be his political inspiration

Jacob Rees-Mogg, who won Somerset North East at the general election, used his maiden speech last night to eloquently note… Read more »

Robert Buckland, Michael Ellis and Guy Opperman give a damning critique of Labour’s record on criminal justice in their 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… Read more »

Mike Weatherley and Brandon Lewis use their maiden speeches to celebrate the British music and film industries and to promote renewable energy

Mike Weatherley, who won Hove from Labour at the election, used his maiden speech last Thursday to celebrate the local… Read more »

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

Further to Andrew Bridgen’s speech, which I noted earlier, there were four more maiden speeches which addressed the European issue… Read more »

Andrew Bridgen uses his maiden speech to explain why he loves he Europe (up to a point)

Andrew Bridgen won the Leicestershire North West constituency at the general election – a seat which he claimed in his… Read more »

Dover’s new MP, Charlie Elphicke, use his maiden speech to demand proper border security

Charlie Elphicke gained Dover at the general election and used his maiden speech during a debate on European affairs to… Read more »

Former soldier Dan Byles uses his maiden speech to highlight the issue of mental health care for veterans

Dan Byles won Warwickshire North at the general election and used his first contribution in the chamber last Thursday to… Read more »

Charlotte Leslie, Gavin Barwell, Christopher Pincher, Heather Wheeler and Gordon Henderson all deliver maiden speeches on education

Below is a final quintet of excerpts from maiden speeches delivered during Wednesday’s debate on the Queen’s Speech. Charlotte Leslie,… Read more »

Totnes MP Sarah Wollaston uses maiden speech to back minimum price alcohol

Totnes’s new MP, Sarah Wollaston – a GP and the first Conservative candidate to have been selected by an all-postal… Read more »

Robert Halfon and Neil Carmichael make the maiden speeches they have been waiting a decade to deliver

Of the new Conservative MPs elected at the general election, eight won their seats at the third time of asking,… Read more »

Paul Maynard uses his maiden speech to highlight the needs of special schools – without which he may never have reached the Commons

The Queen’s Speech debate on Education and Health last Wednesday saw an especially memorable maiden speech from Paul Maynard, the… Read more »

Nick de Bois and Henry Smith mark themselves out as localists in their maiden speeches, while Angie Bray raises the issue of dangerous dogs

Two MPs who got elected at their third successive attempt emphasised the importance of localism in their maiden speeches last… Read more »

Peter Aldous backs offshore renewables while Chris Heaton-Harris attacks onshore wind farms in maiden speeches on energy policy

I have already noted three pro-nuclear power maiden speeches from Thursday's debate on the Queen's Speech. Two further newly-elected Conservative… Read more »

Damian Collins, Stephen Mosley and Thérèse Coffey give vocal backing to nuclear power in their maiden speeches

Among the maiden speeches delivered by new Conservative MPs last Thursday were several which included particularly impassioned defences of nuclear… Read more »