Conduct Of The Editor Of The Guardian (EDM1691)

Conduct Of The Editor Of The Guardian

EDM number 1691 in 1993-94, proposed by Nicholas Bonsor on 31/10/1994.

That this House notes that Mr Peter Preston, the Editor of The Guardian, having set himself up as the arbiter of conduct in public life, has in the course of his newspaper campaign laid himself open to charges of conspiracy to deceive, the theft of House of Commons writing paper and its improper use, the forging of a letter and the signature of an MOD official, the impersonation of a Government Minister, and the obtaining of a private document by deception; calls upon the Board of The Guardian to dismiss Mr Preston as Editor forthwith; calls for his case to be referred to the DPP; calls for his conduct to be investigated by the Committee of Privileges; and considers his membership of the Press Complaints Commission to be untenable, such that Mr Preston should resign immediately from that body.

This motion has been signed by a total of 110 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Type
Nicholas Bonsor	31/10/1994	Upminster	Proposed
James Spicer	31/10/1994	West Dorset	Seconded
Jill Knight	31/10/1994	Birmingham, Edgbaston	Seconded
John Hannam	31/10/1994	Exeter	Seconded
Elaine Kellett	31/10/1994	Lancaster	Seconded
Nicholas Scott	31/10/1994	Chelsea	Seconded
Irvine Patnick	31/10/1994	Sheffield, Hallam	Signed
James Pawsey	31/10/1994	Rugby & Kenilworth	Signed
Elizabeth Peacock	31/10/1994	Batley & Spen	Signed
Barry Porter	31/10/1994	Wirral South	Signed
William Powell	31/10/1994	Corby	Signed
Tim Rathbone	31/10/1994	Lewes	Signed
Andrew Robathan	31/10/1994	Blaby	Signed
Marion Roe	31/10/1994	Broxbourne	Signed
William Ross	31/10/1994	East Londonderry	Signed
Angela Rumbold	31/10/1994	Mitcham & Morden	Signed
David Shaw	31/10/1994	Dover	Signed
Colin Shepherd	31/10/1994	Hereford	Signed
Michael Shersby	31/10/1994	Uxbridge	Signed
Roger Sims	31/10/1994	Chislehurst	Signed
Trevor Skeet	31/10/1994	Bedfordshire North	Signed
Dudley Smith	31/10/1994	Warwick & Leamington	Signed
Michael Spicer	31/10/1994	Worcestershire South	Signed
Andrew Hargreaves	31/10/1994	Birmingham, Hall Green	Signed
Alan Haselhurst	31/10/1994	Saffron Walden	Signed
Nick Hawkins	31/10/1994	Blackpool South	Signed
James Hill	31/10/1994	Southampton, Test	Signed
John Horam	31/10/1994	Orpington	Signed
Andrew Hunter	31/10/1994	Basingstoke	Signed
Robert Jackson	31/10/1994	Wantage	Signed
Bernard Jenkin	31/10/1994	Colchester North	Signed
Toby Jessel	31/10/1994	Twickenham	Signed
Roger Knapman	31/10/1994	Stroud	Signed
Ivan Lawrence	31/10/1994	Burton	Signed
Edward Leigh	31/10/1994	Gainsborough and Horncastle	Signed
Olga Maitland	31/10/1994	Sutton & Cheam	Signed
Patrick McLoughlin	31/10/1994	West Derbyshire	Signed
Iain Mills	31/10/1994	Meriden	Signed
Roger Moate	31/10/1994	Faversham	Signed
Fergus Montgomery	31/10/1994	Altrincham and Sale	Signed
Michael Neubert	31/10/1994	Romford	Signed
Patrick Nicholls	31/10/1994	Teignbridge	Signed
David Nicholson	31/10/1994	Taunton	Signed
Rhodes Boyson	31/10/1994	Brent North	Signed
Julian Brazier	31/10/1994	Canterbury	Signed
Ian Bruce	31/10/1994	South Dorset	Signed
Peter Butler	31/10/1994	North East Milton Keynes	Signed
John Carlisle	31/10/1994	Luton North	Signed
Kenneth Carlisle	31/10/1994	Lincoln	Signed
Bill Cash	31/10/1994	Stafford	Signed
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown	31/10/1994	Cirencester and Tewkesbury	Signed
Michael Colvin	31/10/1994	Romsey and Waterside	Signed
David Congdon	31/10/1994	Croydon North East	Signed
Anthony Coombs	31/10/1994	Wyre Forest	Signed
Patrick Cormack	31/10/1994	South Staffordshire	Signed
James Cran	31/10/1994	Beverley	Signed
Edwina Currie	31/10/1994	South Derbyshire	Signed
Quentin Davies	31/10/1994	Stamford and Spalding	Signed
Stephen Day	31/10/1994	Cheadle	Signed
Nirj Deva	31/10/1994	Brentford & Isleworth	Signed
Timothy Devlin	31/10/1994	Stockton South	Signed
Den Dover	31/10/1994	Chorley	Signed
Iain Duncan Smith	31/10/1994	Chingford	Signed
Alan Duncan	31/10/1994	Rutland & Melton	Signed
Bob Dunn	31/10/1994	Dartford	Signed
Anthony Durant	31/10/1994	Reading West	Signed
Hugh Dykes	31/10/1994	Harrow East	Signed
Harold Elletson	31/10/1994	Blackpool North	Signed
David Evans	31/10/1994	Welwyn Hatfield	Signed
Michael Fabricant	31/10/1994	Staffordshire Mid	Signed
Dudley Fishburn	31/10/1994	Kensington	Signed
Peter Fry	31/10/1994	Wellingborough	Signed
Roger Gale	31/10/1994	North Thanet	Signed
George Gardiner	31/10/1994	Reigate	Signed
Christopher Gill	31/10/1994	Ludlow	Signed
Teresa Gorman	31/10/1994	Billericay	Signed
John Gorst	31/10/1994	Hendon North	Signed
Harry Greenway	31/10/1994	Ealing North	Signed
John Greenway	31/10/1994	Ryedale	Signed
Rupert Allason	31/10/1994	Torbay	Signed
Michael Grylls	31/10/1994	Surrey North West	Signed
Keith Hampson	31/10/1994	Leeds North West	Signed
David Ashby	31/10/1994	North West Leicestershire	Signed
Matthew Banks	31/10/1994	Southport	Signed
Robert Banks	31/10/1994	Harrogate	Signed
Spencer Batiste	31/10/1994	Elmet	Signed
Vivian Bendall	31/10/1994	Ilford North	Signed
Hartley Booth	31/10/1994	Finchley	Signed
Anthony Steen	31/10/1994	South Hams	Signed
Walter Sweeney	31/10/1994	Vale of Glamorgan	Signed
John Sykes	31/10/1994	Scarborough	Signed
Peter Temple-Morris	31/10/1994	Leominster	Signed
Roy Thomason	31/10/1994	Bromsgrove	Signed
Donald Thompson	31/10/1994	Calder Valley	Signed
Patrick Thompson	31/10/1994	Norwich North	Signed
John Townend	31/10/1994	Bridlington	Signed
Neville Trotter	31/10/1994	Tynemouth	Signed
Gerard Vaughan	31/10/1994	Reading East	Signed
Bill Walker	31/10/1994	North Tayside	Signed
Nigel Waterson	31/10/1994	Eastbourne	Signed
Ray Whitney	31/10/1994	Wycombe	Signed
John Whittingdale	31/10/1994	Colchester South and Maldon	Signed
Mark Wolfson	31/10/1994	Sevenoaks	Signed
David Knox	01/11/1994	Staffordshire Moorlands	Signed
Norman Lamont	01/11/1994	Kingston upon Thames	Signed
Michael Clark	01/11/1994	Rochford	Signed
David Faber	01/11/1994	Westbury	Signed
Anthony Grant	01/11/1994	Cambridge South West	Signed
Richard Alexander	01/11/1994	Newark	Signed
Michael Lord	02/11/1994	Suffolk Central	Signed

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