How to Write a Parliamentary Speech

How to Write a Parliamentary Speech is a practicalguide to effective speechwriting. In this guidebook, Paul Richards deploys histhirty years' experience writing parliamentary speeches to offer a completebreakdown of the form. From the Maiden Speech to the resignation farewell,Richards explains, in clear terms, the mechanics beneath every speech an MPwill ever have to make.

But this is more than just a manual; it is a book full ofaffection for the language and processes of Parliament. If you want tounderstand the institution at the heart of the country, you need look nofurther than the way people within it speak. Many handbooks have been writtenon speechwriting, but this is the first in 800 years on parliamentaryspeechwriting.