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Irish Potato Famine

EDM number 55A1 in 2008-09, proposed by Mark Durkan on 09/12/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Agriculture and House of Commons.

at end add `and also greatly regrets the prominent statue in Central Lobby honouring Lord John Russell, the Prime Minister whose ideological obsession with free market forces and indifference to human suffering deserves large blame for the scale of the Irish famine and its consequences.'.

This is a ammendment to 55.

This motion has been signed by a total of 6 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Mark Durkan09/12/2008FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartyProposed
Harry Cohen11/12/2008Leyton and WansteadLabourSeconded
Bill Etherington16/12/2008Sunderland NorthLabourSeconded
Frank Cook16/12/2008Stockton NorthLabourSeconded
David Hamilton12/01/2009MidlothianLabourSeconded
Greg Pope14/01/2009HyndburnLabourSeconded

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