Oxford Union And British National Party

EDM number 358 in 2007-08, proposed by Martin Salter on 21/11/2007.
Categorised under the topics of Equality, Higher education and Human rights.

That this House supports the call by the right hon. Member for Oxford East for the Oxford Union to retract its invitation to Nick Griffin, the British National Party leader, and the Holocaust denier, David Irving, to address the Union; applauds the decision of the hon. Members for the Rhondda, Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Rotherham, Ealing North and others to withdraw from speaking engagements in protest at the decision of the Union President and former Conservative future Chairman, Luke Tryl, to provide a platform for racists and anti-Semites despite widespread objections from present and former members of the Oxford Union and calls on other hon. Members, including the hon. Member for Oxford West and Abingdon, to do the same; notes the threats from far-right groups to target any anti-racist demonstrators; and calls upon the Conservative Party leader and the acting Liberal Democrat leader to make their views known on the issue.

This motion has been signed by a total of 63 MPs, 3 of these signatures have been withdrawn.