Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Barry Sheerman (Labour and Co-operative Party), on Tuesday, 12 February 2013, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 24 members in total.

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PRIME MINISTER HAROLD WILSON

That this House recalls that on 14 February 1963 Harold Wilson became leader of the Labour Party and subsequently served as Prime Minister from 1964 to 1970 and from 1974 to 1976 when he was forced to retire due to ill-health; notes that it was during Wilson's governments that capital punishment was abolished, homosexuality ceased to be a crime and abortion laws were radically reformed; further recalls the rapid rise in higher education opportunities during the Wilson years including the establishment of the Open University and polytechnics and that Wilson insisted on keeping Britain out of the Vietnam War, but within NATO, and gave the people of Britain a referendum on Europe; declares its surprise that no full-length statue of Harold Wilson exists in Westminster; and calls for early action to commission a statue equal in quality to that which stands in St George's Square in his home town of Huddersfield.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

1060 

Session

2012-13

Other sponsors

Alan Meale

George Howarth

Jim Cunningham

Hugh Bayley

Virendra Sharma

Subjects

Central government Artworks Ministers

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk