This afternoon, the newly elected Conservative MP for Bishop Auckland, Dehenna Davison, delivered her first speech within the Home of Commons. The
This afternoon, the newly elected Conservative MP for Bishop Auckland, Dehenna Davison, delivered her first speech within the Home of Commons. The northern MP, the primary ever Tory to take her Durham seat because it was fashioned in 1885, has already triggered a little bit of a stir in Westminster, and been on the forefront of the brand new consumption of ‘Purple Wall’ Tory MPs who managed to grab Labour’s working-class heartlands within the 2019 election.
In her Maiden speech, the Tory MP described herself as ‘happy’ to be within the Home of Commons and representing the individuals of Bishop Auckland, earlier than delivering an impassioned defence of her constituency’s ‘industrial heartlands’, Blue Collar Toryism, the police and NHS.
And, in an indication that the brand new Tory consumption shall be paying shut consideration to Boris Johnson’s promise to ‘stage up’ the UK’s areas, Davison stated she was notably ‘proud to be a member of this Conservative occasion which has levelling up and spreading alternative on the very core of its ethos.’
The brand new MP additionally made a transferring tribute to her father, a stonemason she described as ‘the very embodiment of Blue Collar Conservative values’, who was killed after being punched a single time in a pub, when Davison was an adolescent.
Watch the total Maiden speech right here: