Entrepreneur Michelle Mone has given her maiden speech in the House of Lords.

The Conservative peer told of her childhood in the east end of Glasgow, how the entrepreneur spirit was there when she began a paper round, which eventually led to a request from Prime Minister David Cameron and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Iain Duncan Smith, to lead a review into boosting start-up businesses in deprived areas.

She urged the government to think big just as Scot Alexander Graham Bell did when he invented a new way of communication and networking; the first practical telephone.

Baroness Mone went on to speak of her commitment to women and young people, quoting her karaoke favourite Whitney Houston's song: "I believe the children are our future.

"Teach them well and let them lead the way."

She joked that she would save the lordships' ears by not singing, a fact much lamented by Lord Fowler who commended her "outstanding" speech.