Source: United Kingdom UK House of Lords (video statements)
The first televised debate on 23 January 1985, forty years ago this week, saw members press government on the economy.
Former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, then Earl of Stockton, spoke without notes for 20 minutes aged 90 as ‘a very new boy in your Lordships’ House’. Lord Stockton was said by commentators to have ‘stolen the show.’
See other speeches and find out more about the first televised proceedings from the Lords: https://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2025/january/40-years-of-broadcasting-from-the-house-of-lords/