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CONSERVATIVE PARTY'S MEMBERSHIP OF THE EUROPEAN PEOPLE'S PARTY

EDM number 2320 in 2005-06, proposed by Chris Bryant on 07/06/2006.

That this House notes that on 24th November 2005, in a bid to win the support of the eurosceptic wing of the Conservative Party, the right hon. Member for Witney pledged that if elected leader of the Conservative Party he would withdraw his party from the centre right, European People's Party in the European Parliament, a policy described by Conservative MEP Sir Robert Atkins as `cloud-cuckoo land'; is concerned that this would leave the Conservatives choosing between political isolation or an alliance with the homophobic Polish Law and Justice Party, the Dutch Christian Union, which opposes women standing for election, and the Nationalist Latvian For Fatherland and Freedom Party, who want to ban foreigners from working in schools; fears that if Conservative MEPs abandon the political mainstream British MEPs will lose influence; is therefore glad that the right hon. Member for Witney has so far failed to deliver on his promise; and welcomes the Conservative leader's first major international flip-flop.

This motion has been signed by a total of 48 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Chris Bryant07/06/2006RhonddaLabourProposed
Greg Pope07/06/2006HyndburnLabourSeconded
Ian Lucas07/06/2006WrexhamLabourSeconded
Martyn Jones07/06/2006Clwyd SouthLabourSeconded
Jamie Reed07/06/2006CopelandLabourSeconded
Roberta Blackman-Woods07/06/2006City of DurhamLabourSeconded
Kevan Jones07/06/2006North DurhamLabourSigned
Mark Durkan07/06/2006FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Hywel Francis07/06/2006AberavonLabourSigned
Meg Hillier07/06/2006Hackney South and ShoreditchLabourSigned
Ian Austin07/06/2006Dudley NorthLabourSigned
Mary Creagh07/06/2006WakefieldLabourSigned
Robert Flello07/06/2006Stoke-on-Trent SouthLabourSigned
Richard Burden08/06/2006Birmingham, NorthfieldLabourSigned
Sarah McCarthy-Fry08/06/2006Portsmouth NorthLabourSigned
Andrew Dismore08/06/2006HendonLabourSigned
Janet Dean08/06/2006BurtonLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins08/06/2006TamworthLabourSigned
John Cummings12/06/2006EasingtonLabourSigned
Derek Wyatt12/06/2006Sittingbourne and SheppeyLabourSigned
Helen Goodman12/06/2006Bishop AucklandLabourSigned
Sadiq Khan12/06/2006TootingLabourSigned
Jim McGovern12/06/2006Dundee WestLabourSigned
Sharon Hodgson13/06/2006Gateshead East and Washington WestLabourSigned
Mark Lazarowicz13/06/2006Edinburgh North and LeithLabourSigned
Fraser Kemp13/06/2006Houghton and Washington EastLabourSigned
Jim Dobbin13/06/2006Heywood and MiddletonLabourSigned
Julie Morgan14/06/2006Cardiff NorthLabourSigned
Rob Marris14/06/2006Wolverhampton South WestLabourSigned
Michael Clapham14/06/2006Barnsley West and PenistoneLabourSigned
David Hamilton14/06/2006MidlothianLabourSigned
Hugh Bayley14/06/2006City of YorkLabourSigned
Mark Tami14/06/2006Alyn and DeesideLabourSigned
Betty Williams14/06/2006ConwyLabourSigned
Jim Devine14/06/2006LivingstonLabourSigned
David Anderson16/06/2006BlaydonLabourSigned
Laura Moffatt16/06/2006CrawleyLabourSigned
Vincent Cable19/06/2006TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Clive Betts19/06/2006Sheffield, AttercliffeLabourSigned
Lyn Brown20/06/2006West HamLabourSigned
Jessica Morden20/06/2006Newport EastLabourSigned
David Heyes21/06/2006Ashton-under-LyneLabourSigned
Janet Anderson22/06/2006Rossendale and DarwenLabourSigned
John Hemming22/06/2006Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Simpson27/06/2006Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
David Borrow27/06/2006South RibbleLabourSigned
Eric Illsley29/06/2006Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Mike Gapes03/07/2006Ilford SouthLabourSigned

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