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Tributes (Speaker Weatherill)

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

460 c307-20 

Session

2006-07

Department

Leader of the House of Commons

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Derek Conway | 460 c319-20 (Link to this contribution) Several colleagues from my 1983 intake have spoken about how they found Speaker Weatherill when they...

Julian Lewis | 460 c320 (Link to this contribution) As a member of the 1997 intake, I can offer only the tiniest cameo from my knowledge of Lord Weather...

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Michael Jack | 460 c318-9 (Link to this contribution) On occasions such as this, one thinks it sad that the person we talk of, Jack Weatherill, cannot be ...

Ann Winterton | 460 c319 (Link to this contribution) I should like to pay my own very brief personal tribute to the late Speaker Weatherill. I was one of...

Speaker | 460 c320 (Link to this contribution) I will undertake to send the extract of Hansard to Lady Weatherill. We will remember Speaker Weather...

David Heath | 460 c310-1 (Link to this contribution) Like the right hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs. May), and indeed the majority of Members of the Hous...

Gwyneth Dunwoody | 460 c311 (Link to this contribution) The office of Speaker of the House is never easy to fulfil, and over the centuries people have inter...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 460 c308 (Link to this contribution) I, too, am grateful for the opportunity to pay tribute to Lord Weatherill. As many have already sai...

Alan Williams | 460 c309-10 (Link to this contribution) I speak not only on my own behalf but, I hope, on behalf of many of Jack’s ex-colleagues who would w...

Jack Straw | 460 c307-8 (Link to this contribution) As I said earlier, I am extremely grateful to you, Mr. Speaker, for giving me and many right hon. an...

Nicholas Winterton | 460 c311-2 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to follow the hon. Member for Crewe and Nantwich (Mrs. Dunwoody) in what she has said...

Lord Young of Cookham | 460 c313-4 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton (Sir Gerald Kaufman). I hope...

Gerald Kaufman | 460 c312-3 (Link to this contribution) I was fortunate in sharing some characteristics with Jack Weatherill. I shared with him the honour o...

Elfyn Llwyd | 460 c317-8 (Link to this contribution) There have been many fine tributes in this Chamber this afternoon, all of them very well deserved. W...

Robert Key | 460 c318 (Link to this contribution) Mr. Speaker Weatherill was dragged to the Chair in the same year I was elected. Fulsome tributes hav...

David Winnick | 460 c314-5 (Link to this contribution) In October 2000, in a debate about the election of a Speaker, I praised—and rightly so—Betty Boothro...

Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown | 460 c315-6 (Link to this contribution) I speak on behalf of my right hon. and hon. Friends, who cannot be present today because this aftern...

Tony Lloyd | 460 c316 (Link to this contribution) On behalf of the whole parliamentary Labour party, I want to join in the tribute to Jack Weatherill ...

Diane Abbott | 460 c317 (Link to this contribution) I am very glad to be able to pay this short tribute to Speaker Weatherill. Speaker Weatherill was m...

Peter Viggers | 460 c316-7 (Link to this contribution) For a while after the election of every Speaker, there is a period when the House wonders what kind ...

Subjects

Death Weatherill, Lord

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