HILLSBOROUGH AND THE SUN NEWSPAPER

Early day motion 2287, tabled 19 October 2011 by Lord Watts (Labour). Signed by 88 members.

That this House supports David Hawkins' e-petition which calls on The Sun newspaper to provide full disclosure of all its records including the sources of information and documents which relate to The Truth story published on 19th April 1989; calls on Kelvin MacKenzie to make a full and unreserved apology for this untrue story which his newspaper published; and calls on all media outlets to refuse to engage him professionally until he has done so.

Signatures by party: Labour 75, Liberal Democrat 6, Plaid Cymru 2, Social Democratic and Labour Party 2, Alliance 1, Conservative 1, Green 1.