<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><edm>
<id>17569</id>
<session>1998-99</session>
<number>71</number>
<title>Welsh Assembly Leadership Elections</title>
<proposer id="10190">Nigel Evans</proposer>
<date>1998-12-02</date>
<text>That this House welcomes the election of Rod Richards as leader of the Conservative candidates in Wales; congratulates the Conservative Party for democratically electing the leader in Wales by the one member one vote system; notes by contrast the parachuting in of the Secretary of State for Wales as the favoured candidate of the Prime Minister; deplores the rigged system of voting to elect the Labour leader which denies the use of a fair one member one vote system; further notes the Secretary of State for Wales' comments of 30th November, Official Report, column 639, that 'every member of the Labour Party will have a vote in the selection of the leader of the Labour party in Wales'; but regrets the fact that the unions and the honourable Members and candidates will be able to outvote the wishes of the ordinary rank and file members.</text>
<topics>
</topics>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10190">Nigel Evans</mp>
		<date>1998-12-02</date>
		<type>Proposed</type>
		<constituency>Ribble Valley</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10473">Owen Paterson</mp>
		<date>1998-12-02</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North Shropshire</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10509">Marion Roe</mp>
		<date>1998-12-02</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Broxbourne</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10373">Peter Luff</mp>
		<date>1998-12-02</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Mid Worcestershire</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10073">Ian Bruce</mp>
		<date>1998-12-02</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>South Dorset</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10179">Alan Duncan</mp>
		<date>1998-12-02</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Rutland &amp; Melton</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10051">Crispin Blunt</mp>
		<date>1998-12-02</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Reigate</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10582">Robert Syms</mp>
		<date>1998-12-02</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Poole</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10636">John Wilkinson</mp>
		<date>1998-12-03</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ruislip - Northwood</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10371">Tim Loughton</mp>
		<date>1998-12-03</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>East Worthing &amp; Shoreham</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10057">Peter Bottomley</mp>
		<date>1998-12-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Worthing West</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10601">John Townend</mp>
		<date>1998-12-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>East Yorkshire</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10580">Desmond Swayne</mp>
		<date>1998-12-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>New Forest West</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10040">John Bercow</mp>
		<date>1998-12-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Buckingham</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10240">James Gray</mp>
		<date>1998-12-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North Wiltshire</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10227">Christopher Gill</mp>
		<date>1998-12-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ludlow</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10194">Michael Fallon</mp>
		<date>1998-12-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Sevenoaks</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10193">Michael Fabricant</mp>
		<date>1998-12-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Lichfield</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10127">Michael Colvin</mp>
		<date>1998-12-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Romsey</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10099">Sydney Chapman</mp>
		<date>1998-12-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Chipping Barnet</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10422">Michael Mates</mp>
		<date>1998-12-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>East Hampshire</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10358">Julian Lewis</mp>
		<date>1998-12-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>New Forest East</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10257">Philip Hammond</mp>
		<date>1998-12-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Runnymede &amp; Weybridge</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10602">David Tredinnick</mp>
		<date>1998-12-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bosworth</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10627">Bowen Wells</mp>
		<date>1998-12-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hertford &amp; Stortford</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10646">Ann Winterton</mp>
		<date>1998-12-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Congleton</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10009">David Amess</mp>
		<date>1998-12-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Southend West</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10242">John Greenway</mp>
		<date>1998-12-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ryedale</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10175">Stephen Dorrell</mp>
		<date>1998-12-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Charnwood</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10065">Julian Brazier</mp>
		<date>1998-12-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Canterbury</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10062">Graham Brady</mp>
		<date>1998-12-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Altrincham &amp; Sale West</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10520">David Ruffley</mp>
		<date>1998-12-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bury St Edmunds</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10647">Nicholas Winterton</mp>
		<date>1998-12-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Macclesfield</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10591">Teddy Taylor</mp>
		<date>1998-12-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Rochford &amp; Southend East</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10201">Howard Flight</mp>
		<date>1998-12-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Arundel &amp; South Downs</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10106">James Clappison</mp>
		<date>1998-12-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hertsmere</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10456">Patrick Nicholls</mp>
		<date>1998-12-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Teignbridge</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10316">Geoffrey Johnson Smith</mp>
		<date>1998-12-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wealden</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10293">Gerald Howarth</mp>
		<date>1998-12-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Aldershot</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10515">Andrew Rowe</mp>
		<date>1998-12-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Faversham &amp; Mid Kent</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10643">David Wilshire</mp>
		<date>1998-12-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Spelthorne</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10631">Ray Whitney</mp>
		<date>1998-12-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wycombe</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10041">Paul Beresford</mp>
		<date>1998-12-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Mole Valley</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10019">David Atkinson</mp>
		<date>1998-12-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bournemouth East</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10228">Cheryl Gillan</mp>
		<date>1998-12-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Chesham &amp; Amersham</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10386">John MacGregor</mp>
		<date>1998-12-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>South Norfolk</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10352">Edward Leigh</mp>
		<date>1998-12-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Gainsborough</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10348">Eleanor Laing</mp>
		<date>1998-12-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Epping Forest</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10344">Julie Kirkbride</mp>
		<date>1998-12-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bromsgrove</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10310">Robert Jackson</mp>
		<date>1998-12-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wantage</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10342">Tom King</mp>
		<date>1998-12-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bridgwater</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10457">Archie Norman</mp>
		<date>1998-12-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Tunbridge Wells</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10243">Dominic Grieve</mp>
		<date>1998-12-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Beaconsfield</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10366">Peter Lloyd</mp>
		<date>1998-12-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Fareham</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10264">Nick Hawkins</mp>
		<date>1998-12-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Surrey Heath</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10559">Caroline Spelman</mp>
		<date>1998-12-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Meriden</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10119">Geoffrey Clifton-Brown</mp>
		<date>1999-02-02</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Cotswold</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10107">Alan Clark</mp>
		<date></date>
		<type>Withdrawn</type>
		<constituency></constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10234">Alastair Goodlad</mp>
		<date></date>
		<type>Withdrawn</type>
		<constituency></constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
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