WILLIAM MCCREA

Early day motion 832, tabled 9 June 2000 by Harry Barnes (Labour). Signed by 8 members.

That this House notes the allegation in Henry McDonald's recent book, Trimble, that a Unionist politician from the anti-agreement camp, who had had links to Billy Wright's mid-Ulster Ulster Volunteer Force, visited the Portadown home of Mark Fulton, then the Chief of Staff of the breakaway Loyalist Volunteer Force, in the autumn of 1998 to seek to persuade that organisation not to decommission any of its weapons as decommissioning might help the cause of the Right honourable Member for Upper Bann; is deeply disturbed to discover the serious allegation that the politician in question was the former Member for Mid Ulster, William McCrea; condemns him for this terrible act of political and moral opportunism; and urges his party, for which he is a Member of the Legislative Assembly in Northern Ireland, to disavow his action and thus demonstrate that it is, as a party, totally committed to democratic and constitutional politics.

Signatures by party: Labour 6, Conservative 1, Labour/Co-operative 1.