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Conduct Of Stella Rimington, Head Of Mi5

EDM number 190 in 1994-95, proposed by George Galloway on 05/12/1994.

That this House notes the disturbing allegations about MI5 operations against the National Union of Mineworkers published in a book, The Enemy Within, by Seumas Milne and broadcast in the Channel Four, Dispatches, programme on 23rd November; further notes that there is strong evidence of the systematic abuse of security service powers against the miners' union and its leadership, including the mobilisation of GCHQ stations against domestic targets, dirty tricks, forged documents, phoney bank deposits, infiltration of the union at all levels, agent provocateur operations and the planting of smear stories in the media; further notes that further evidence has emerged that Roger Windsor, former NUM Chief Executive, was an MI5 agent sent into the union to destabilise it, and that Mr Windsor has now been found guilty in the French courts, to which jurisdiction he fled, of having himself signed documents he falsely claimed had been forged by NUM President, Arthur Scargill; further notes that Stella Rimington, as an assistant director heading MI5's F2 branch, was in charge of security service operations against the NUM during the 1984-85 strike, and now, as Director General, is seeking to extend MI5's responsibilities in the direction of creating a British F.B.I.; calls for an independent public inquiry into the activities of the security services against the NUM; and believes that, if these latest allegations are shown to be well founded, Mrs Rimington is not a fit person to run the security service and should be dismissed.

This motion has been signed by a total of 53 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
George Galloway05/12/1994Glasgow HillheadProposed
Alan Meale05/12/1994MansfieldSeconded
Jimmy Hood05/12/1994ClydesdaleSeconded
Eric Illsley05/12/1994Barnsley CentralSigned
Harry Cohen05/12/1994LeytonSigned
Peter Hain05/12/1994NeathSigned
Jack Thompson06/12/1994WansbeckSigned
Harry Barnes06/12/1994North East DerbyshireSigned
Martin Redmond06/12/1994Don ValleySigned
Peter Hardy06/12/1994WentworthSigned
Lynne Jones06/12/1994Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Alice Mahon06/12/1994HalifaxSigned
William McKelvey06/12/1994Kilmarnock & LoudounSigned
Bill Michie06/12/1994Sheffield, HeeleySigned
John Cummings06/12/1994EasingtonSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe06/12/1994LeighSigned
Norman Godman06/12/1994Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
Tam Dalyell07/12/1994LinlithgowSeconded
Dennis Skinner07/12/1994BolsoverSeconded
Tony Benn07/12/1994ChesterfieldSeconded
Tony Banks07/12/1994Newham North WestSigned
Janet Anderson07/12/1994Rossendale & DarwenSigned
Jimmy Dunnachie07/12/1994Glasgow, PollokSigned
Terry Davis07/12/1994Birmingham, Hodge HillSigned
Ian Davidson07/12/1994Glasgow, GovanSigned
Jean Corston07/12/1994Bristol EastSigned
Andrew MacKinlay07/12/1994ThurrockSigned
Calum MacDonald07/12/1994Na h-Eileanan an IarSigned
Rachel Squire07/12/1994Dunfermline WestSigned
Llew Smith07/12/1994Blaenau GwentSigned
Greg Pope07/12/1994HyndburnSigned
Michael Connarty07/12/1994Falkirk EastSigned
Mike Watson08/12/1994Glasgow CentralSigned
Mike Hall08/12/1994Warrington SouthSigned
Tommy Graham08/12/1994Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned
Maria Fyfe08/12/1994Glasgow, MaryhillSigned
Michael Clapham08/12/1994Barnsley West & PenistoneSigned
Eddie Loyden08/12/1994Liverpool, GarstonSigned
Kevin Hughes08/12/1994Doncaster NorthSigned
Jeremy Corbyn08/12/1994Islington NorthSigned
Neil Gerrard09/12/1994WalthamstowSigned
Dennis Turner12/12/1994Wolverhampton South EastSigned
Max Madden13/12/1994Bradford WestSigned
Roger Godsiff13/12/1994Birmingham Small HeathSigned
Ian McCartney14/12/1994MakerfieldSigned
Bill Etherington15/12/1994Sunderland NorthSigned
Chris Mullin19/12/1994Sunderland SouthSigned
Martyn Jones10/01/1995Clwyd South WestSigned
Ken Livingstone10/01/1995Brent EastSigned
Tony Lloyd10/01/1995StretfordSigned
Brian H Donohoe10/01/1995Cunninghame SouthSigned
James Wray10/01/1995Glasgow ProvanSigned
Roland Boyes19/01/1995Houghton and WashingtonSigned

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