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Imperial Measures And Steve Thoburn

EDM number 2028 in 2006-07, proposed by Philip Davies on 26/07/2007.

That this House welcomes the fact that imperial measures will not now become an illegal form of measurement in the UK for the foreseeable future; abhors the fact that traders are not allowed to sell only in imperial measurements even if their customers specifically want to buy items in imperial measurements; calls on the Government to end this attack on people's freedom of choice by immediately bringing forward proposals to remove the legal requirement to sell in metric measurements and to de-criminalise the selling of goods in this traditional way; pays tribute to Steve Thoburn, who became a martyr for standing up and fighting for his customers and the rights of the British people; and supports the campaign to award him a posthumous pardon.

This motion has been signed by a total of 19 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Philip Davies26/07/2007ShipleyConservativeProposed
John Bercow08/10/2007BuckinghamConservativeSeconded
Graham Stringer09/10/2007Manchester, BlackleyLabourSeconded
Peter Bottomley09/10/2007Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
John Leech09/10/2007Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSeconded
Nicholas Winterton09/10/2007MacclesfieldConservativeSeconded
Gregory Campbell10/10/2007East LondonderryDUPSigned
Stewart Jackson10/10/2007PeterboroughConservativeSigned
John McDonnell10/10/2007Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Lindsay Hoyle10/10/2007ChorleyLabourSigned
Bob Spink10/10/2007Castle PointConservativeSigned
Nigel Dodds11/10/2007Belfast NorthDUPSigned
Ann Winterton11/10/2007CongletonConservativeSigned
Stephen Crabb11/10/2007Preseli PembrokeshireConservativeSigned
Daniel Kawczynski15/10/2007Shrewsbury and AtchamConservativeSigned
Kelvin Hopkins18/10/2007Luton NorthLabourSigned
Alan Simpson22/10/2007Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Mark Pritchard23/10/2007The WrekinConservativeSigned
Rudi Vis24/10/2007Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned

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