Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Dari Taylor (Labour), on Wednesday, 19 November 1997, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 40 members in total.

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CONDUCT OF THE HONOURABLE MEMBER FOR NEW FOREST WEST

That this House condemns and dissociates itself with the utterly offensive and shameful use of a quotation of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, made by the honourable Member for New Forest West, when referring to women who serve in the Armed Forces, that 'To be always with a woman and not to have intercourse with her is more difficult that to raise the dead' and the following reprehensible comment made by the honourable Member, that 'As one is not capable of the latter, one is certainly not capable of the former', since both quotation and comment demean the valid contribution that women can and will continue to make in the British Armed Forces.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

482 

Session

1997-98

Other sponsors

Stuart Bell

Caroline Flint

Helen Jones

Chris Leslie

Betty Williams

Subjects

Armed forces Conduct Women Members Swayne, Desmond

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk