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EDM number 1017 in 2006-07, proposed by Dai Davies on 01/03/2007.

That this House recalls that, when summing up the debate on Iraq on 18th March 2003, the vote which gave parliamentary authority to the Government to invade Iraq, the Prime Minister asserted that `This is the time not just for this Government, or indeed for this Prime Minister, but for the House to give a lead: to show that we will stand up for what we know to be right' (Official Report, 18th March 2003: column 774); further recalls that, earlier in the same debate, the Prime Minister had told this House that `We are asked now seriously to accept that in the last few days, contrary to all history, contrary to all intelligence, Saddam decided unilaterally to destroy those weapons [of mass destruction]. I say that such a claim is palpably absurd'; believes that the Prime Minister's certainty and views have been demonstrated to be in error; notes that, when the Prime Minister presented the White Paper on the arguments for replacing British nuclear weapons of mass destruction to this House on 4th December 2006, the Prime Minister argued that ultimately this decision was a judgment about possible risks to the United Kingdom and its security, and the place of nuclear weapons in thwarting the risks (column 21); further believes that, as in the earlier circumstances, the Prime Minister's judgment is fatally flawed; and calls upon the Government to postpone any decision to replace Trident, and to devote its attention to genuine multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations.

This motion has been signed by a total of 20 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Dai Davies01/03/2007Blaenau GwentIndependentProposed
Glenda Jackson02/03/2007Hampstead and HighgateLabourSeconded
Kelvin Hopkins02/03/2007Luton NorthLabourSeconded
Gordon Prentice02/03/2007PendleLabourSeconded
Lynne Jones02/03/2007Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSeconded
George Galloway05/03/2007Bethnal Green and BowRespectSeconded
Paul Holmes05/03/2007ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSigned
Jeremy Corbyn05/03/2007Islington NorthLabourSigned
David Taylor06/03/2007North West LeicestershireLabourSigned
Mike Hancock06/03/2007Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Ann Cryer06/03/2007KeighleyLabourSigned
John McDonnell07/03/2007Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Norman Baker07/03/2007LewesLiberal DemocratSigned
John Leech07/03/2007Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Angus MacNeil07/03/2007Na h-Eileanan an IarScottish National PartySigned
Harry Cohen08/03/2007Leyton and WansteadLabourSigned
Alan Simpson15/03/2007Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
John Hemming19/03/2007Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Mike Wood20/03/2007Batley and SpenLabourSigned
Paul Rowen18/04/2007RochdaleLiberal DemocratSigned

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