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New Countryside Alliance Chief Executive

EDM number 1285 in 1997-98, proposed by Jeremy Corbyn on 05/05/1998.

That this House notes that the new Chief Executive of the Countryside Alliance, far from defending British jobs, sold his business supplying components to the mining industry after being informed over lunch with Ian MacGregor that the then Prime Minister was prepared 'to go to the death with the miners;' (Horse and Hound, 30th April 1998), opened a factory on a greenfield site in Craigavon, Northern Ireland, for a subsidiary of Beaufort plc when he was its Chief Executive, invested in a greenfield factory in America, and admits to being a 'zealot' who is 'completely over the top' about hunting (Horse and Hound, 30th April 1998); has no confidence in claims by the Countryside Alliance that they are concerned with problems being faced by rural Britain such as unemployment and defending greenfield sites; and believes that its sole purpose is the defence of hunting.

This motion has been signed by a total of 37 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Jeremy Corbyn05/05/1998Islington NorthLabourProposed
Nick Palmer06/05/1998BroxtoweLabourSigned
Dennis Skinner06/05/1998BolsoverLabourSigned
Lynne Jones06/05/1998Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Ashok Kumar06/05/1998Middlesbrough South & East ClevelandLabourSigned
Norman Godman06/05/1998Greenock & InverclydeLabourSigned
Gerry Steinberg07/05/1998Durham, City ofLabourSigned
Harry Barnes07/05/1998North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
Eric Clarke07/05/1998MidlothianLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins07/05/1998Luton NorthLabourSigned
Martin Salter07/05/1998Reading WestLabourSigned
David Lepper08/05/1998Brighton, PavilionLabour Co-operativeSigned
Tony Benn08/05/1998ChesterfieldLabourSigned
Ann Cryer11/05/1998KeighleyLabourSigned
Andrew Dismore11/05/1998HendonLabourSigned
Ian Gibson12/05/1998Norwich NorthLabourSigned
Diana Organ13/05/1998Forest of DeanLabourSigned
Alan Williams13/05/1998Carmarthen East & DinefwrLabourSigned
Neil Gerrard13/05/1998WalthamstowLabourSigned
Jim Fitzpatrick13/05/1998Poplar & Canning TownLabourSigned
Andrew Love13/05/1998EdmontonLabour Co-operativeSigned
Colin Pickthall13/05/1998West LancashireLabourSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe13/05/1998LeighLabourSigned
John Cryer14/05/1998HornchurchLabourSigned
Bill Etherington14/05/1998Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Paul Flynn14/05/1998Newport WestLabourSigned
Kevin McNamara18/05/1998Kingston upon Hull NorthLabourSigned
John Austin19/05/1998Erith & ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Janet Dean20/05/1998BurtonLabourSigned
Candy Atherton20/05/1998Falmouth & CamborneLabourSigned
Eric Illsley21/05/1998Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
John McDonnell21/05/1998Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Audrey Wise21/05/1998PrestonLabourSigned
Martyn Jones02/06/1998Clwyd SouthLabourSigned
Russell Brown02/06/1998DumfriesLabourSigned
Alan Simpson08/06/1998Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Ken Livingstone16/07/1998Brent EastLabourSigned

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