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Purchase Of Express Newspapers

EDM number 1180 in 1999-00, proposed by Brian Sedgemore on 27/11/2000.

That this House expresses its grave concerns and regrets that national newspapers with the Express Group should have fallen under the ownership of a publisher of pornography, Mr Richard Desmond; and calls on the Secretary of State at the Department of Trade and Industry to institute an inquiry in the public interest.

This motion has been signed by a total of 10 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Brian Sedgemore27/11/2000Hackney South & ShoreditchLabourProposed
Alice Mahon27/11/2000HalifaxLabourSigned
Robert Marshall-Andrews27/11/2000MedwayLabourSigned
Dale Campbell-Savours27/11/2000WorkingtonLabourSigned
Ann Clwyd27/11/2000Cynon ValleyLabourSigned
Ann Cryer27/11/2000KeighleyLabourSigned
Gerry Bermingham27/11/2000St Helens SouthLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn28/11/2000Islington NorthLabourSigned
David Taylor28/11/2000North West LeicestershireLabour Co-operativeSigned
Bill Michie29/11/2000Sheffield, HeeleyLabourSigned

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