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Conduct Of The Secretary Of State For Trade And Industry

EDM number 581 in 1990-91, proposed by Brian Sedgemore on 07/03/1991.

That this House condemns the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry for his view that anyone who casts a vote in a general election for a political party other than the Conservative Party is unfit to take part in BBC television and radio programmes on news and current affairs; further condemns the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry for seeking to intimidate the BBC in the run up to a general election; further condemns the Secretary of State for his churlish inability to answer hard-hitting questions which are reasonably expressed and honestly put; further condemns the Secretary of State for showing his contempt for the development of a democratic and pluralist society, happily not yet ossified by yesterday's Conservative ideology; and calls on the Prime Minister to dismiss him.

This motion has been signed by a total of 23 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Brian Sedgemore07/03/1991Hackney South & ShoreditchProposed
Dennis Skinner07/03/1991BolsoverSigned
Ernie Ross08/03/1991Dundee WestSigned
John McAllion08/03/1991Dundee EastSigned
William McKelvey08/03/1991Kilmarnock & LoudounSigned
Harry Cohen08/03/1991LeytonSigned
Harry Barnes08/03/1991North East DerbyshireSigned
Bill Michie12/03/1991Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Norman Godman13/03/1991Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
James Wray13/03/1991Glasgow ProvanSigned
Mike Watson13/03/1991Glasgow CentralSigned
Robert Wareing13/03/1991Liverpool, West DerbySigned
Maria Fyfe13/03/1991Glasgow, MaryhillSigned
Jimmy Dunnachie13/03/1991Glasgow, PollokSigned
Robert Parry13/03/1991Liverpool, RiversideSigned
Alice Mahon14/03/1991HalifaxSigned
Ian McCartney14/03/1991MakerfieldSigned
Tommy Graham14/03/1991Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned
Eric Illsley18/03/1991Barnsley CentralSigned
Dennis Turner19/03/1991Wolverhampton South EastSigned
Jack Thompson21/03/1991WansbeckSigned
Martyn Jones18/04/1991Clwyd South WestSigned
Ken Livingstone29/04/1991Brent EastSigned

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