Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Ken Livingstone (Labour), on Tuesday, 24 February 1998, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 3 members in total.

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MORNING STAR DISPUTE

That this House believes that, as the only daily newspaper in the English language consistently supporting the trade union and labour movement, the Morning Star makes a unique contribution to the diversity and pluralism of this country's press; is concerned that recent political differences threaten the future of the newspaper; notes that these differences started with the elected management committee's criticism of the editor's editorial backing for a demonstration at which one of the advertised speakers was on record as questioning whether Hitler's Holocaust against Jewish people occurred and the editor's subsequent refusal to report the withdrawal of the Trades Union Congress and the Jewish Board of Deputies from that demonstration when they learnt of the views of this speaker; further notes the differences over whether the newspaper should continue to be aligned with the Party, with Arthur Scargill recently offering up to ??250,000 as part of a proposal to change the structure of the Morning Star and align it with the Socialist Labour Party, and that the Political Committee of the Communist Party of Britain on 28th January decided to organise a meeting of its general secretary and the editor of the Morning Star with Arthur Scargill to discuss the Morning Star's relationship with the Socialist Labour Party; and urges all sides to settle their differences amicably while maintaining the Morning Star's longstanding support for the broad trade union and labour movement.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

829 

Session

1997-98

Subjects

Industrial disputes Morning Star

Link

View this Early day motion on edm.parliament.uk