Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Harry Barnes (Labour), on Friday, 9 June 2000, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 8 members in total.

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WILLIAM MCCREA

That this House notes the allegation in Henry McDonald's recent book, Trimble, that a Unionist politician from the anti-agreement camp, who had had links to Billy Wright's mid-Ulster Ulster Volunteer Force, visited the Portadown home of Mark Fulton, then the Chief of Staff of the breakaway Loyalist Volunteer Force, in the autumn of 1998 to seek to persuade that organisation not to decommission any of its weapons as decommissioning might help the cause of the Right honourable Member for Upper Bann; is deeply disturbed to discover the serious allegation that the politician in question was the former Member for Mid Ulster, William McCrea; condemns him for this terrible act of political and moral opportunism; and urges his party, for which he is a Member of the Legislative Assembly in Northern Ireland, to disavow his action and thus demonstrate that it is, as a party, totally committed to democratic and constitutional politics.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

832 

Session

1999-00

Subjects

Decommissioning Northern Ireland Proscribed organisations Terrorism Ulster Volunteer Force McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown, Lord Trimble, Lord

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk