Mr Edward Stourton And Today Programme (EDM293)

Mr Edward Stourton And Today Programme

EDM number 293 in 2008-09, proposed by Keith Vaz on 15/12/2008.
Categorised under the topic of Broadcasting.

That this House deplores the sacking of Edward Stourton as a presenter of the Today programme; calls upon the Chairman of the BBC Trust, who represents the licence fee payer, to investigate how his sacking came to be notified to him by a journalist from the Independent on Sunday; notes that Mr Stourton commands huge respect for the undoubted impartiality and intellectual rigour he brings to the Today programme; further notes that Jonathan Ross has been retained by the same BBC management team that has dispensed with Mr Stourton; and calls on the BBC to reinstate Mr Stourton as a presenter on the Today programme forthwith.

This motion has been signed by a total of 90 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Keith Vaz	15/12/2008	Leicester East	Labour	Proposed
Peter Luff	15/12/2008	Mid Worcestershire	Conservative	Seconded
David Howarth	15/12/2008	Cambridge	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Hugo Swire	15/12/2008	East Devon	Conservative	Seconded
Harry Cohen	15/12/2008	Leyton and Wanstead	Labour	Seconded
Bob Russell	15/12/2008	Colchester	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Nicholas Winterton	16/12/2008	Macclesfield	Conservative	Signed
Angus MacNeil	16/12/2008	Na h-Eileanan an Iar	Scottish National Party	Signed
Stewart Jackson	16/12/2008	Peterborough	Conservative	Signed
Ann Winterton	16/12/2008	Congleton	Conservative	Signed
Robert Walter	16/12/2008	North Dorset	Conservative	Signed
Peter Bottomley	16/12/2008	Worthing West	Conservative	Signed
John Barrett	16/12/2008	Edinburgh West	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Andrew George	16/12/2008	St Ives	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Christopher Fraser	16/12/2008	South West Norfolk	Conservative	Signed
David Drew	16/12/2008	Stroud	Labour	Signed
Claire Curtis-Thomas	16/12/2008	Crosby	Labour	Signed
Stephen Pound	16/12/2008	Ealing North	Labour	Signed
Eric Illsley	16/12/2008	Barnsley Central	Labour	Signed
Glenda Jackson	16/12/2008	Hampstead and Highgate	Labour	Signed
Andrew Dismore	16/12/2008	Hendon	Labour	Signed
Lynne Jones	16/12/2008	Birmingham, Selly Oak	Labour	Signed
Ian Liddell-Grainger	16/12/2008	Bridgwater	Conservative	Signed
Elfyn Llwyd	16/12/2008	Meirionnydd Nant Conwy	Plaid Cymru	Signed
Martin Caton	16/12/2008	Gower	Labour	Signed
Frank Cook	16/12/2008	Stockton North	Labour	Signed
Ann Cryer	16/12/2008	Keighley	Labour	Signed
Michael Fallon	17/12/2008	Sevenoaks	Conservative	Signed
Barry Gardiner	17/12/2008	Brent North	Labour	Signed
Michael Fabricant	17/12/2008	Lichfield	Conservative	Signed
Edward Garnier	17/12/2008	Harborough	Conservative	Signed
James Gray	17/12/2008	North Wiltshire	Conservative	Signed
Dominic Grieve	17/12/2008	Beaconsfield	Conservative	Signed
Mike Hancock	17/12/2008	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Michael Ancram	17/12/2008	Devizes	Conservative	Signed
John Battle	17/12/2008	Leeds West	Labour	Signed
Anne Begg	17/12/2008	Aberdeen South	Labour	Signed
Dari Taylor	17/12/2008	Stockton South	Labour	Signed
John Thurso	17/12/2008	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Michael Weir	17/12/2008	Angus	Scottish National Party	Signed
David Willetts	17/12/2008	Havant	Conservative	Signed
Philip Dunne	17/12/2008	Ludlow	Conservative	Signed
Andy Slaughter	17/12/2008	Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush	Labour	Signed
Graham Stuart	17/12/2008	Beverley and Holderness	Conservative	Signed
Lee Scott	17/12/2008	Ilford North	Conservative	Signed
Mark Hunter	17/12/2008	Cheadle	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Jim Devine	17/12/2008	Livingston	Labour	Signed
Bob Neill	17/12/2008	Bromley and Chislehurst	Conservative	Signed
Edward Davey	17/12/2008	Kingston and Surbiton	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Jeffrey M Donaldson	17/12/2008	Lagan Valley	DUP	Signed
Gordon Prentice	17/12/2008	Pendle	Labour	Signed
John Pugh	17/12/2008	Southport	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Alan Simpson	17/12/2008	Nottingham South	Labour	Signed
Michael Spicer	17/12/2008	West Worcestershire	Conservative	Signed
Kelvin Hopkins	17/12/2008	Luton North	Labour	Signed
Simon Hughes	17/12/2008	North Southwark and Bermondsey	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Bernard Jenkin	17/12/2008	North Essex	Conservative	Signed
Paul Keetch	17/12/2008	Hereford	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Julie Kirkbride	17/12/2008	Bromsgrove	Conservative	Signed
Eleanor Laing	17/12/2008	Epping Forest	Conservative	Signed
Michael Mates	17/12/2008	East Hampshire	Conservative	Signed
Michael Moore	17/12/2008	Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk	Liberal Democrat	Signed
David Mundell	17/12/2008	Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale	Conservative	Signed
Colin Breed	17/12/2008	South East Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Simon Burns	17/12/2008	West Chelmsford	Conservative	Signed
Alistair Burt	17/12/2008	North East Bedfordshire	Conservative	Signed
Christopher Chope	17/12/2008	Christchurch	Conservative	Signed
Jim Dobbin	17/12/2008	Heywood and Middleton	Labour	Signed
Mark Durkan	17/12/2008	Foyle	Social Democratic and Labour Party	Signed
Robert Marshall-Andrews	17/12/2008	Medway	Labour	Signed
Henry Bellingham	18/12/2008	North West Norfolk	Conservative	Signed
Jeremy Wright	18/12/2008	Rugby and Kenilworth	Conservative	Signed
Andrew Pelling	18/12/2008	Croydon Central	Independent	Signed
Tobias Ellwood	18/12/2008	Bournemouth East	Conservative	Signed
Richard Benyon	18/12/2008	Newbury	Conservative	Signed
Gisela Stuart	18/12/2008	Birmingham, Edgbaston	Labour	Signed
Alan Duncan	18/12/2008	Rutland and Melton	Conservative	Signed
Julian Brazier	18/12/2008	Canterbury	Conservative	Signed
Richard Ottaway	18/12/2008	Croydon South	Conservative	Signed
Andrew Mitchell	18/12/2008	Sutton Coldfield	Conservative	Signed
Michael Jack	18/12/2008	Fylde	Conservative	Signed
David Hamilton	12/01/2009	Midlothian	Labour	Signed
Betty Williams	12/01/2009	Conwy	Labour	Signed
Greg Pope	14/01/2009	Hyndburn	Labour	Signed
Malcolm Bruce	15/01/2009	Gordon	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Roger Godsiff	15/01/2009	Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small Heath	Labour	Signed
Rudi Vis	19/01/2009	Finchley and Golders Green	Labour	Signed
Albert Owen	27/01/2009	Ynys M	Labour	Signed
Ian Gibson	Unknown			Withdrawn
John Bercow	Unknown			Withdrawn

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