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No Confidence In The Prime Minister

EDM number 187 in 1989-90, proposed by Paddy Ashdown on 12/12/1989.

That this House has no confidence in the Prime Minister, following her total isolation at the Strasbourg Summit of the European Community and her failure to represent the interests of Britain at that summit; condemns in particular her failure to announce an early date for full British membership of the European Monetary System; regrets profoundly her isolation on the issue of Economic and Monetary Union and on the Social Charter; believes that she has done nothing to protect British interests in the Council of Ministers; notes that Britain will have to pay a heavy price in the future to enable the Prime Minister to live in the past; and calls for an early opportunity to test her approach in debate in the House of Commons and to contrast it with the growing commitment of the British people to a new democratic and united Europe.

This motion has been signed by a total of 19 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Paddy Ashdown12/12/1989YeovilProposed
Geraint Howells12/12/1989Ceredigion and Pembroke NorthSigned
Jim Wallace12/12/1989Orkney & ShetlandSigned
Matthew Taylor12/12/1989TruroSigned
David Steel12/12/1989Tweeddale, Ettrick and LauderdaleSigned
Alan Beith12/12/1989Berwick-upon-TweedSigned
David Alton12/12/1989Liverpool Mossley HillSigned
Ronnie Fearn12/12/1989SouthportSigned
Alex Carlile12/12/1989MontgomerySigned
Menzies Campbell12/12/1989Fife North EastSigned
Malcolm Bruce12/12/1989GordonSigned
Ray Michie12/12/1989Argyll & ButeSigned
Robert Maclennan12/12/1989Caithness and SutherlandSigned
Richard Livsey12/12/1989Brecon and RadnorSigned
Archy Kirkwood12/12/1989Roxburgh & BerwickshireSigned
Charles Kennedy12/12/1989Ross and Cromarty and SkyeSigned
Russell Johnston12/12/1989Inverness, Nairn and LochaberSigned
Simon Hughes12/12/1989Southwark and BermondseySigned
Andrew Faulds13/12/1989Warley EastSigned

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