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NLJ this week: House of firsts

09 August 2024
Issue: 8083 / Categories: Legal News , Public , Constitutional law
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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.

Issue: 8083 / Categories: Legal News , Public , Constitutional law
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