CONSERVATIVE PARTY'S MEMBERSHIP OF THE EUROPEAN PEOPLE'S PARTY

EDM number 2320 in 2005-06, proposed by Chris Bryant on 07/06/2006.

That this House notes that on 24th November 2005, in a bid to win the support of the eurosceptic wing of the Conservative Party, the right hon. Member for Witney pledged that if elected leader of the Conservative Party he would withdraw his party from the centre right, European People's Party in the European Parliament, a policy described by Conservative MEP Sir Robert Atkins as `cloud-cuckoo land'; is concerned that this would leave the Conservatives choosing between political isolation or an alliance with the homophobic Polish Law and Justice Party, the Dutch Christian Union, which opposes women standing for election, and the Nationalist Latvian For Fatherland and Freedom Party, who want to ban foreigners from working in schools; fears that if Conservative MEPs abandon the political mainstream British MEPs will lose influence; is therefore glad that the right hon. Member for Witney has so far failed to deliver on his promise; and welcomes the Conservative leader's first major international flip-flop.

This motion has been signed by a total of 48 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Chris Bryant	07/06/2006	Rhondda	Labour	Proposed
Greg Pope	07/06/2006	Hyndburn	Labour	Seconded
Jamie Reed	07/06/2006	Copeland	Labour	Seconded
Roberta Blackman-Woods	07/06/2006	Durham, City of	Labour	Seconded
Martyn Jones	07/06/2006	Clwyd South	Labour	Seconded
Ian Lucas	07/06/2006	Wrexham	Labour	Seconded
Robert Flello	07/06/2006	Stoke-on-Trent South	Labour	Signed
Mary Creagh	07/06/2006	Wakefield	Labour	Signed
Ian Austin	07/06/2006	Dudley North	Labour	Signed
Meg Hillier	07/06/2006	Hackney South & Shoreditch	Labour	Signed
Hywel Francis	07/06/2006	Aberavon	Labour	Signed
Mark Durkan	07/06/2006	Foyle	Social Democratic and Labour Party	Signed
Kevan Jones	07/06/2006	North Durham	Labour	Signed
Sarah McCarthy-Fry	08/06/2006	Portsmouth North	Labour	Signed
Andrew Dismore	08/06/2006	Hendon	Labour	Signed
Janet Dean	08/06/2006	Burton	Labour	Signed
Richard Burden	08/06/2006	Birmingham, Northfield	Labour	Signed
Brian Jenkins	08/06/2006	Tamworth	Labour	Signed
John Cummings	12/06/2006	Easington	Labour	Signed
Derek Wyatt	12/06/2006	Sittingbourne & Sheppey	Labour	Signed
Helen Goodman	12/06/2006	Bishop Auckland	Labour	Signed
Sadiq Khan	12/06/2006	Tooting	Labour	Signed
James McGovern	12/06/2006	Dundee West	Labour	Signed
Sharon Hodgson	13/06/2006	Gateshead East & Washington West	Labour	Signed
Jim Dobbin	13/06/2006	Heywood & Middleton	Labour	Signed
Mark Lazarowicz	13/06/2006	Edinburgh North & Leith	Labour	Signed
Fraser Kemp	13/06/2006	Houghton & Washington East	Labour	Signed
Jim Devine	14/06/2006	Livingston	Labour	Signed
Betty Williams	14/06/2006	Conwy	Labour	Signed
Mark Tami	14/06/2006	Alyn & Deeside	Labour	Signed
Hugh Bayley	14/06/2006	York, City of	Labour	Signed
David Hamilton	14/06/2006	Midlothian	Labour	Signed
Michael Clapham	14/06/2006	Barnsley West & Penistone	Labour	Signed
Rob Marris	14/06/2006	Wolverhampton South West	Labour	Signed
Julie Morgan	14/06/2006	Cardiff North	Labour	Signed
David Anderson	16/06/2006	Blaydon	Labour	Signed
Laura Moffatt	16/06/2006	Crawley	Labour	Signed
Vincent Cable	19/06/2006	Twickenham	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Clive Betts	19/06/2006	Sheffield, Attercliffe	Labour	Signed
Lyn Brown	20/06/2006	West Ham	Labour	Signed
Jessica Morden	20/06/2006	Newport East	Labour	Signed
David Heyes	21/06/2006	Ashton-under-Lyne	Labour	Signed
John Hemming	22/06/2006	Birmingham, Yardley	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Janet Anderson	22/06/2006	Rossendale & Darwen	Labour	Signed
Alan Simpson	27/06/2006	Nottingham South	Labour	Signed
David Borrow	27/06/2006	South Ribble	Labour	Signed
Eric Illsley	29/06/2006	Barnsley Central	Labour	Signed
Mike Gapes	03/07/2006	Ilford South	Labour	Signed

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