LABOUR WHIPS AND THE HONOURABLE MEMBER FOR SHREWSBURY AND ATCHAM

Early day motion 529A1, tabled 12 December 2001 by Martin Salter (Labour). Signed by 19 members.

leave out from 'December' to end and add 'which most honourable Members feel is a work of complete fantasy; expresses its commiserations for the disenfranchised people of Shrewsbury and Atcham who have been betrayed by their Member of Parliament and whose clear political preference as expressed in the ballot box on 7th June has been cast aside; notes that attempts by the Government Chief Whip to address the concerns of the honourable Member were leaked by him to the most virulent anti-Labour newspaper in the country; and accepts that his defection to the Liberal Democrats has been widely welcomed by the Parliamentary Labour Party but less so by many senior Liberal Democrat honourable Members.'.

Signatures by party: Labour 18, Labour/Co-operative 1.