British Parliamentary · OG · Proposition · second speaker
Deputy Prime Minister DPM
The closing proposition speaker in OG. The board counts DPM speeches from majors and strong-field tournaments only, so weak or inflated-scale events do not distort the rankings.
35,111DPM speeches on record
76.6Average speaker score
88Highest on record
11,605Debaters who've given it
Best DPM speeches on record
The highest speaker scores ever given from this seat.
| Debater | Score | Motion | Tournament |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇮🇱Hadar G. | 88 | THBT Donald Trump winning the 2024 US Presidential Election is in the interest of the Chinese Communist Party | Glasgow European Universities Debating Championships 2024 |
| 🇨🇦Dhananjay A. | 88 | TH, as Mike Pence in 2020, would go along with the Trump coup attempt. | Johns Hopkins Open 2022 |
| Benjamin D. | 88 | THBT it is in the interests of Taiwan to pursue friendlier ties with China (e.g. economic, political and cultural ties) | Madrid WUDC 2023 2022 |
| Speaker S. | 88 | This House would abolish the Olympic Games. | Thailand WUDC 2020 2019 |
| Dylan C. | 87 | This House Believes That it is in the interests of post-Soviet Central Asian states to pivot away from Russia and develop closer political and economic ties with China | Zagreb European Universities Debating Championships 2022 |
| 🇮🇪Lucy M. | 87 | This house hopes for the message to confirm the existence of a deterministic universe | Glasgow Ancients 2024 |
| 🇮🇪Rob F. | 87 | THBT South Korean feminists should advocate for the mandatory conscription of women | Trinity Open 2024 |
| Wajeeh M. | 87 | THS the aggressive pursuit of social media & reality T.V. campaigns in sports | Vienna IV 2025 |
| 🇬🇧Nicole W. | 87 | This House Predicts that in 10 years the majority of the world's population will consider the creation of generative AI to have been a mistake. | Copenhagen European Universities Debating Championships 2025 |
| 🇬🇧Elena R. | 87 | This House prefers a collegiate model of university governance over a centralised model. | Cambridge IV 2024 |
| 🇬🇧Rohan C. | 87 | THR the rise of finfluencers | Glasgow Ancients 2024 |
| Dylan C. | 87 | THBT the internationalisation of intellectual property law brings more harm than good | Madrid WUDC 2023 2022 |
Best motions for DPM
The motions where DPM speakers score highest on average.
| Motion | Speeches | Avg score |
|---|---|---|
| THR the rise of ‘Publish or Perish’ culture. | 28 | 78.9 |
| THS the use of doxxing by the Left to counter the harrassment of women | 22 | 78.6 |
| THW grant the WHO, in times of crisis, coercive powers to gather information about suspected infectious disease outbreaks and to enforce its policy recommendations. | 80 | 78.1 |
| Assuming the prevalence of any given gene in the total human population remains the same, THP a world where babies were born with a random genetic profile, rather than one inherited from their parents | 88 | 78.1 |
| THW revoke registered charitable status from groups that focus solely or primarily on "advancing religion" | 22 | 77.8 |
| THBT that Latin American governments should adopt measures that allow one cartel to monopolise the drug market | 30 | 77.7 |
| THBT parents should primarily use reward power rather than legitimate power when trying to modify behaviour | 22 | 77.6 |
| THR the romanticisation of love marriages in Bollywood movies | 54 | 77.6 |
How DPM scores by motion category
Average DPM speaker score on each kind of motion, from the same majors-and-strong-field set.
| Category | Speeches | Avg score |
|---|---|---|
| Comedy & Novelty | 245 | 77.2 |
| Fiction | 192 | 76.9 |
| Health & Medicine | 721 | 76.9 |
| Environment | 553 | 76.8 |
| Education | 1792 | 76.8 |
| Law & Crime | 2337 | 76.7 |
| Social & Identity | 6784 | 76.7 |
| Religion | 1167 | 76.7 |
| Politics | 3986 | 76.6 |
| Arts & Culture | 989 | 76.6 |
| Economics | 5454 | 76.6 |
| International Relations | 3042 | 76.5 |
Debaters who specialise
The highest average speaker scores from the DPM seat, among debaters with 4+ scored speeches.
| Debater | Speeches | Avg score |
|---|---|---|
| 🇬🇧Abhinav B. | 6 | 84.0 |
| 🇮🇱Hadar G. | 10 | 83.7 |
| 🇳🇱Emma L. | 4 | 83.5 |
| 🇮🇪Andy C. | 4 | 83.3 |
| 🇵🇭Mikko V. | 16 | 83.1 |
| 🇦🇺Bostan N. | 4 | 83.0 |
| 🇺🇸Aditya D. | 4 | 82.5 |
| 🇬🇧Joseph L. | 9 | 82.4 |
| Benjamin D. | 10 | 82.4 |
| Seamus D. | 6 | 82.3 |