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EDM number 1383 in 1993-94, proposed by Peter Hain on 23/06/1994.

That this House rejects recent comments made in this House on 15th June by the Foreign Secretary that Italian neo-fascists are welcome in Britain; reminds the Foreign Secretary of recent remarks made by Gianfranco Fini, leader of the fascist MSI that 'Mussolini was Italy's greatest statesman this century' and Pino Rauti, MSI's Euro-candidate in Rome that 'Mussolini's regime provides valid pointers not only for today but for tomorrow' and fascist MP Piero Buscaroli that 'homosexuals lead terrible lives, if it were up to me I'd send them all to the concentration camps;' notes with dismay that because they are desperate to shore up their deeply unpopular government, Conservatives are prepared to seek allies in any dingy quarter; believes that the Foreign Secretary's statement can only give Nazis both here and across Europe the respectability they crave; and consequently calls on him to sever all links with a government containing fascist ministers beginning with the cancellation of the visit of the Italian Foreign Secretary Antonio Martino scheduled for Wednesday 29th June.

This motion has been signed by a total of 43 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Peter Hain23/06/1994NeathProposed
Alan Simpson23/06/1994Nottingham SouthSigned
Lynne Jones23/06/1994Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Richard Burden23/06/1994Birmingham, NorthfieldSigned
Neil Gerrard23/06/1994WalthamstowSigned
Roger Berry23/06/1994KingswoodSigned
Ken Livingstone24/06/1994Brent EastSigned
Jim Dowd24/06/1994Lewisham WestSigned
David Hanson27/06/1994DelynSigned
Hugh Bayley27/06/1994York, City ofSigned
John Cummings27/06/1994EasingtonSigned
Dennis Turner28/06/1994Wolverhampton South EastSigned
Harry Barnes28/06/1994North East DerbyshireSigned
John Evans28/06/1994St Helens NorthSigned
Jean Corston28/06/1994Bristol EastSigned
Eddie Loyden28/06/1994Liverpool, GarstonSigned
Eric Illsley28/06/1994Barnsley CentralSigned
Llew Smith28/06/1994Blaenau GwentSigned
Martin Redmond28/06/1994Don ValleySigned
Ken Purchase28/06/1994Wolverhampton North EastSigned
Bridget Prentice28/06/1994Lewisham EastSigned
Colin Pickthall28/06/1994West LancashireSigned
Peter Hardy28/06/1994WentworthSigned
Norman Godman29/06/1994Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
Gerry Steinberg29/06/1994Durham, City ofSigned
Janet Anderson29/06/1994Rossendale & DarwenSigned
Mike Hall29/06/1994Warrington SouthSigned
Michael Clapham29/06/1994Barnsley West & PenistoneSigned
Alex Carlile29/06/1994MontgomerySigned
Ronnie Campbell29/06/1994Blyth ValleySigned
Keith Bradley29/06/1994Manchester, WithingtonSigned
Roland Boyes29/06/1994Houghton and WashingtonSigned
Bill Michie29/06/1994Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Dennis Skinner29/06/1994BolsoverSigned
Greg Pope30/06/1994HyndburnSigned
Alice Mahon30/06/1994HalifaxSigned
Clive Betts30/06/1994Sheffield, AttercliffeSigned
Jack Thompson30/06/1994WansbeckSigned
Audrey Wise30/06/1994PrestonSigned
Harry Cohen01/07/1994LeytonSigned
Michael Connarty05/07/1994Falkirk EastSigned
Bill Etherington06/07/1994Sunderland NorthSigned
Paul Flynn07/07/1994Newport WestSigned

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