nigel evans with a call to order.take have been making their debuts in the commons this week. so, what are the key elements of a maiden speech? claire gould has our countdown. praise your constituency. it's the best place in the country full of the best people, and lib dem layla moran has a bold claim for abingdon in her oxford west constituency. it is the oldest town. colchester, go away and try harder. prove you're more than just a career politician and tell the house about your practical experience. conservative damien mooore clearly felt that his previous job as a supermarket manager would be a huge help in his new role. only time will tell if my audience this afternoon is as receptive as my customers were to my prices. some say it is best not to be too political in your maiden speech. but that is impossible to resist for many. the only new snp mp david linden took the opportunity to lay into the government. it is simply unacceptable that in glasgow east, 6,234 children are deemed as living in poverty. that is the

i am joined by the conservative mp nigel evans. a prominent leave campaign. ing within the cabinet, are you concerned this seems to be a bit of a fudge on brexit or a way of a slippery slope if you like not actually the eu? no. you can't have one foot in on one foot out, you are going to fall over otherwise we don't want that. we wa nt otherwise we don't want that. we want delivering on democracy, not self harm for ourselves british industry. there may be some practical reasons why we need transitional arrangements on things like immigration, for instance, if the bee 's regime is not ready then clearly we will need some transitional relationships. —— the visa regime. all that will have to be negotiated with the eu because if they are not happy then nothing will happen. pragmatism seems to be the new buzzword but as we heard from philip hammond today, he seized transitional period as incorporating quite a long time of us having a very similar relationship with the eu as we do now. goods moving freely, for example, that suggests we could be in the single market

nigel evans, has it been a good few days?isingly, we will be an independent country again. what is being achieved? it has shone a light on areas of division. absolutely, thatis on areas of division. absolutely, that is what a negotiation is all about. theresa may said there would be no running commentary, but we do seem to get to know that bets from the negotiations between david davis and michel barnier, areas where there are real problems over the rights of european union citizens in the uk. they wanted to be decided by the uk. they wanted to be decided by the european courts. but when michel barnier was asked, could you name a european country where the rate of the citizens of that country are justifiable by a foreign court? you could not. there are areas where michel barnier has to recognise there will be some give. it is what negotiations are about. james, what do you think about the negotiations? they have not done brilliantly, progress has been absent and this is supposed to be the easy stuff before the thorny issues o