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<id>17998</id>
<session>1999-00</session>
<number>651</number>
<title>Ukip Candidate In The Romsey By-Election</title>
<proposer id="10316">Geoffrey Johnson Smith</proposer>
<date>2000-04-17</date>
<text>That this House notes with suspicion that the UKIP candidate in the Romsey by-election is actually a sitting Liberal Democrat councillor on Test Valley Borough Council; questions the legitimacy of a candidate who represents as a councillor an openly pro-federal Europe party whilst now claiming to seek the votes of those who are not; and further notes that the Liberal Democrat party has failed to eject the UKIP candidate from its Test Valley Council group.</text>
<topics>
</topics>
<signatures>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10316">Geoffrey Johnson Smith</mp>
		<date>2000-04-17</date>
		<type>Proposed</type>
		<constituency>Wealden</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10615">Peter Viggers</mp>
		<date>2000-04-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Gosport</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10582">Robert Syms</mp>
		<date>2000-04-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Poole</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10058">Virginia Bottomley</mp>
		<date>2000-04-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>South West Surrey</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10057">Peter Bottomley</mp>
		<date>2000-04-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Worthing West</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10243">Dominic Grieve</mp>
		<date>2000-04-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Beaconsfield</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10165">Stephen Day</mp>
		<date>2000-04-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Cheadle</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10119">Geoffrey Clifton-Brown</mp>
		<date>2000-04-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Cotswold</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10062">Graham Brady</mp>
		<date>2000-04-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Altrincham &amp; Sale West</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10531">Jonathan Sayeed</mp>
		<date>2000-04-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Mid Bedfordshire</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10627">Bowen Wells</mp>
		<date>2000-04-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hertford &amp; Stortford</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
</signatures>
</edm>
