The Observer

EDM number 1562 in 1992-93, proposed by John Cummings on 10/03/1993.

That this House deplores the disgraceful and disloyal conduct of Mr Donald Trelford, Editor of The Observer, in failing to help his freelance contributor, the Middle East specialist, Dr Alan George, to defend a libel action launched by Crescent Petroleum, a company which until the invasion of Kuwait had intimate links with Saddam Hussein's regime; and congratulates Dr George for his successful application to the High Court on 25th February that the action be struck out on the grounds that the words complained of were incapable of bearing the meanings alleged.

This motion has been signed by a total of 6 MPs.