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Conduct Of The Honourable Member For New Forest West

EDM number 482 in 1997-98, proposed by Dari Taylor on 19/11/1997.

That this House condemns and dissociates itself with the utterly offensive and shameful use of a quotation of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, made by the honourable Member for New Forest West, when referring to women who serve in the Armed Forces, that 'To be always with a woman and not to have intercourse with her is more difficult that to raise the dead' and the following reprehensible comment made by the honourable Member, that 'As one is not capable of the latter, one is certainly not capable of the former', since both quotation and comment demean the valid contribution that women can and will continue to make in the British Armed Forces.

This motion has been signed by a total of 40 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Dari Taylor19/11/1997Stockton SouthLabourProposed
Betty Williams19/11/1997ConwyLabourSeconded
Helen Jones19/11/1997Warrington NorthLabourSeconded
Stuart Bell19/11/1997MiddlesbroughLabourSeconded
Caroline Flint19/11/1997Don ValleyLabourSeconded
Christopher Leslie19/11/1997ShipleyLabourSeconded
Judy Mallaber19/11/1997Amber ValleyLabourSigned
Jeff Ennis19/11/1997Barnsley East & MexboroughLabourSigned
Robin Corbett20/11/1997Birmingham, ErdingtonLabourSigned
Harry Barnes20/11/1997North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
Norman Godman20/11/1997Greenock & InverclydeLabourSigned
Ken Livingstone20/11/1997Brent EastLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins20/11/1997Luton NorthLabourSigned
Ernie Ross20/11/1997Dundee WestLabourSigned
Bill Etherington21/11/1997Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Lynne Jones24/11/1997Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Tony McWalter24/11/1997Hemel HempsteadLabour Co-operativeSigned
Peter Bradley24/11/1997Wrekin, TheLabourSigned
Huw Edwards24/11/1997MonmouthLabourSigned
Alan Whitehead24/11/1997Southampton, TestLabourSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe25/11/1997LeighLabourSigned
Mike Hancock25/11/1997Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Julia Drown25/11/1997South SwindonLabourSigned
Ashok Kumar26/11/1997Middlesbrough South & East ClevelandLabourSigned
John Gunnell26/11/1997Morley & RothwellLabourSigned
Maria Eagle27/11/1997Liverpool, GarstonLabourSigned
Anne Begg27/11/1997Aberdeen SouthLabourSigned
Irene Adams27/11/1997Paisley NorthLabourSigned
Janet Dean27/11/1997BurtonLabourSigned
Lynda Clark27/11/1997Edinburgh, PentlandsLabourSigned
Ivan Lewis27/11/1997Bury SouthLabourSigned
Beverley Hughes27/11/1997Stretford & UrmstonLabourSigned
Jonathan R Shaw27/11/1997Chatham & AylesfordLabourSigned
Malcolm Savidge27/11/1997Aberdeen NorthLabourSigned
Laura Moffatt28/11/1997CrawleyLabourSigned
Rudi Vis28/11/1997Finchley & Golders GreenLabourSigned
Jacqui Smith01/12/1997RedditchLabourSigned
Eric Illsley02/12/1997Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
John McDonnell03/12/1997Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Andrew Love12/01/1998EdmontonLabour Co-operativeSigned

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