Early Day Motion·EDM 377
CONDUCT OF THE HONOURABLE MEMBER FOR HARTLEPOOL
30 October 199748 Signatures
Primary sponsor
Sir Julian Lewis
Conservative — New Forest East
Motion Text
That this House notes the recent admission by the Minister without Portfolio, that he was active in the Young Communist League when MI5 opened a file on him in the early 1970s; regards as unacceptable his excuse that this amounted to the holding of ordinary left-wing views; deplores his reported demand that MI5 files on Cold War subversives should be destroyed; and urges the Director-General of the Security Service to resist partisan and self-serving political pressure from the Minister without Portfolio.