Conduct Of The Editor Of The Guardian

EDM number 1691 in 1993-94, proposed by Nicholas Bonsor on 31/10/1994.

That this House notes that Mr Peter Preston, the Editor of The Guardian, having set himself up as the arbiter of conduct in public life, has in the course of his newspaper campaign laid himself open to charges of conspiracy to deceive, the theft of House of Commons writing paper and its improper use, the forging of a letter and the signature of an MOD official, the impersonation of a Government Minister, and the obtaining of a private document by deception; calls upon the Board of The Guardian to dismiss Mr Preston as Editor forthwith; calls for his case to be referred to the DPP; calls for his conduct to be investigated by the Committee of Privileges; and considers his membership of the Press Complaints Commission to be untenable, such that Mr Preston should resign immediately from that body.

This motion has been signed by a total of 110 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Nicholas Bonsor	31/10/1994	Upminster		Proposed
Nicholas Scott	31/10/1994	Chelsea		Seconded
Elaine Kellett	31/10/1994	Lancaster		Seconded
John Hannam	31/10/1994	Exeter		Seconded
Jill Knight	31/10/1994	Birmingham, Edgbaston		Seconded
James Spicer	31/10/1994	West Dorset		Seconded
David Evans	31/10/1994	Welwyn Hatfield		Signed
Michael Fabricant	31/10/1994	Staffordshire Mid		Signed
Dudley Fishburn	31/10/1994	Kensington		Signed
Peter Fry	31/10/1994	Wellingborough		Signed
Roger Gale	31/10/1994	North Thanet		Signed
George Gardiner	31/10/1994	Reigate		Signed
Christopher Gill	31/10/1994	Ludlow		Signed
Teresa Gorman	31/10/1994	Billericay		Signed
John Gorst	31/10/1994	Hendon North		Signed
Harry Greenway	31/10/1994	Ealing North		Signed
Harold Elletson	31/10/1994	Blackpool North		Signed
Hugh Dykes	31/10/1994	Harrow East		Signed
Anthony Durant	31/10/1994	Reading West		Signed
James Cran	31/10/1994	Beverley		Signed
Edwina Currie	31/10/1994	South Derbyshire		Signed
Quentin Davies	31/10/1994	Stamford and Spalding		Signed
Stephen Day	31/10/1994	Cheadle		Signed
Nirj Deva	31/10/1994	Brentford & Isleworth		Signed
Timothy Devlin	31/10/1994	Stockton South		Signed
Den Dover	31/10/1994	Chorley		Signed
Iain Duncan Smith	31/10/1994	Chingford		Signed
Alan Duncan	31/10/1994	Rutland & Melton		Signed
Bob Dunn	31/10/1994	Dartford		Signed
John Greenway	31/10/1994	Ryedale		Signed
Rupert Allason	31/10/1994	Torbay		Signed
Roy Thomason	31/10/1994	Bromsgrove		Signed
Donald Thompson	31/10/1994	Calder Valley		Signed
Patrick Thompson	31/10/1994	Norwich North		Signed
John Townend	31/10/1994	Bridlington		Signed
Neville Trotter	31/10/1994	Tynemouth		Signed
Gerard Vaughan	31/10/1994	Reading East		Signed
Bill Walker	31/10/1994	North Tayside		Signed
Nigel Waterson	31/10/1994	Eastbourne		Signed
Ray Whitney	31/10/1994	Wycombe		Signed
John Whittingdale	31/10/1994	Colchester South and Maldon		Signed
Peter Temple-Morris	31/10/1994	Leominster		Signed
John Sykes	31/10/1994	Scarborough		Signed
Michael Grylls	31/10/1994	Surrey North West		Signed
Keith Hampson	31/10/1994	Leeds North West		Signed
David Ashby	31/10/1994	North West Leicestershire		Signed
Matthew Banks	31/10/1994	Southport		Signed
Robert Banks	31/10/1994	Harrogate		Signed
Spencer Batiste	31/10/1994	Elmet		Signed
Vivian Bendall	31/10/1994	Ilford North		Signed
Hartley Booth	31/10/1994	Finchley		Signed
Anthony Steen	31/10/1994	South Hams		Signed
Walter Sweeney	31/10/1994	Vale of Glamorgan		Signed
Mark Wolfson	31/10/1994	Sevenoaks		Signed
Patrick Cormack	31/10/1994	South Staffordshire		Signed
Irvine Patnick	31/10/1994	Sheffield, Hallam		Signed
Roger Sims	31/10/1994	Chislehurst		Signed
Trevor Skeet	31/10/1994	Bedfordshire North		Signed
Dudley Smith	31/10/1994	Warwick & Leamington		Signed
Michael Spicer	31/10/1994	Worcestershire South		Signed
Andrew Hargreaves	31/10/1994	Birmingham, Hall Green		Signed
Alan Haselhurst	31/10/1994	Saffron Walden		Signed
Nick Hawkins	31/10/1994	Blackpool South		Signed
James Hill	31/10/1994	Southampton, Test		Signed
John Horam	31/10/1994	Orpington		Signed
Andrew Hunter	31/10/1994	Basingstoke		Signed
Michael Shersby	31/10/1994	Uxbridge		Signed
Colin Shepherd	31/10/1994	Hereford		Signed
James Pawsey	31/10/1994	Rugby & Kenilworth		Signed
Elizabeth Peacock	31/10/1994	Batley & Spen		Signed
Barry Porter	31/10/1994	Wirral South		Signed
William Powell	31/10/1994	Corby		Signed
Tim Rathbone	31/10/1994	Lewes		Signed
Andrew Robathan	31/10/1994	Blaby		Signed
Marion Roe	31/10/1994	Broxbourne		Signed
William Ross	31/10/1994	East Londonderry		Signed
Angela Rumbold	31/10/1994	Mitcham & Morden		Signed
David Shaw	31/10/1994	Dover		Signed
Robert Jackson	31/10/1994	Wantage		Signed
Bernard Jenkin	31/10/1994	Colchester North		Signed
Julian Brazier	31/10/1994	Canterbury		Signed
Ian Bruce	31/10/1994	South Dorset		Signed
Peter Butler	31/10/1994	North East Milton Keynes		Signed
John Carlisle	31/10/1994	Luton North		Signed
Kenneth Carlisle	31/10/1994	Lincoln		Signed
Bill Cash	31/10/1994	Stafford		Signed
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown	31/10/1994	Cirencester and Tewkesbury		Signed
Michael Colvin	31/10/1994	Romsey and Waterside		Signed
David Congdon	31/10/1994	Croydon North East		Signed
Anthony Coombs	31/10/1994	Wyre Forest		Signed
Rhodes Boyson	31/10/1994	Brent North		Signed
David Nicholson	31/10/1994	Taunton		Signed
Patrick Nicholls	31/10/1994	Teignbridge		Signed
Toby Jessel	31/10/1994	Twickenham		Signed
Roger Knapman	31/10/1994	Stroud		Signed
Ivan Lawrence	31/10/1994	Burton		Signed
Edward Leigh	31/10/1994	Gainsborough and Horncastle		Signed
Olga Maitland	31/10/1994	Sutton & Cheam		Signed
Patrick McLoughlin	31/10/1994	West Derbyshire		Signed
Iain Mills	31/10/1994	Meriden		Signed
Roger Moate	31/10/1994	Faversham		Signed
Fergus Montgomery	31/10/1994	Altrincham and Sale		Signed
Michael Neubert	31/10/1994	Romford		Signed
Richard Alexander	01/11/1994	Newark		Signed
Anthony Grant	01/11/1994	Cambridge South West		Signed
David Faber	01/11/1994	Westbury		Signed
Michael Clark	01/11/1994	Rochford		Signed
Norman Lamont	01/11/1994	Kingston upon Thames		Signed
David Knox	01/11/1994	Staffordshire Moorlands		Signed
Michael Lord	02/11/1994	Suffolk Central		Signed

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