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British Parliamentary debates consist of four teams, containing two speakers each, which are divided into two sides that speak for and against the motion. Due to the style's origins in British parliamentary procedure, the two sides are called the Government and the Opposition. Similarly, sides are known as benches, consisting of two teams - an ...
William Ewart Gladstone FRS FSS (/ ˈ ɡ l æ d s t ən / GLAD-stən; 29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British statesman and Liberal Party politician. In a career lasting over 60 years, he was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for 12 years, spread over four non-consecutive terms (the most of any British prime minister) beginning in ...
The list excludes the speeches given by (or on behalf of) the Sovereign at the State Opening of Parliament [2] and at the close of each parliamentary session. Only four people besides the reigning monarch at the time have addressed both Houses together on more than one occasion.
After he delivers the Speech from the Throne, outlining the government's policies for the coming year, a member of the government reads the Report on the State of the Realm, an account of the government's achievements of the past year. [57] In Sweden a similar ceremony as the British was held until 1974, when the constitution was changed.
King Charles makes major departure from Queen in his Christmas speech. Royal family attend Christmas Day service at Sandringham. 04:00, Alexander Butler. The royal family marked Christmas Day by ...
According to George L. Bernstein, the speech made the British people think that Powell "was the first British politician who was actually listening to them". [ 30 ] Powell defended his speech on 4 May through an interview for the Birmingham Post : "What I would take 'racialist' to mean is a person who believes in the inherent inferiority of one ...
Canting arms of Fox, Baron Holland: Ermine, on a chevron azure three fox's heads and necks erased or on a canton of the second a fleur-de-lys of the third. Charles James Fox (24 January 1749 – 13 September 1806), styled The Honourable from 1762, was a British Whig politician and statesman whose parliamentary career spanned 38 years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
We shall fight on the beaches" was a speech delivered by the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom on 4 June 1940. This was the second of three major speeches given around the period of the Battle of France ; the others are the " Blood, toil, tears and sweat " speech of 13 May ...