The Prime Minister And Avoidance Of Debate

EDM number 1198 in 1989-90, proposed by Terry Lewis on 27/06/1990.

That this House, being aware that the Prime Minister, having achieved the status of the least active Prime Minister in the House for the last 120 years, is, nonetheless, affronted that the Right honourable Lady has failed to speak in any Commons debate, save for replies to the Gracious Speech, for over four years, has not made a speech in the Chamber of any kind since the reply to the Gracious Speech in the Autumn of 1989 and has, in the same period, continued to eschew attendance at public gatherings except on foreign soil; considers this high degree of insulation from critical scrutiny, organised by her public relations advisers, to be anti-democratic; and draws attention to this being the clearest indication yet of the lack of confidence in her leadership within the Conservative Party growing to match that of the public at large.

This motion has been ammended, see 813A1, 813A2 and 813A3.

This motion has been signed by a total of 35 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.