SIR JEREMY GREENSTOCK'S AND SIR CHRISTOPHER MEYER'S BOOKS

Early day motion 845, tabled 24 October 2005 by Andrew MacKinlay (Labour). Signed by 22 members.

That this House recalls three decades ago the enormous furore caused, and the humbug advanced, by those people who had an interest in resisting daylight and transparency descending on the arcane process of the machinery of government and decision-making when Harold Wilson published his memoire A Personal Record — The Labour Government 1964-70, and Richard Crossman and his estate published The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister; regrets that similar forces exist in this generation, designed to minimise openness; believes that everyone in public life should try to record their recollections of key conversations and events to which they are privy for posterity as history; and in this regard encourages Sir Jeremy Greenstock and Sir Christopher Meyer to resist all pressures and `publish and be damned'.

Signatures by party: Labour 16, Conservative 3, Liberal Democrat 3.