PARLIAMENTARY EARLY DAY MOTION
EUROPEAN ELECTIONS (1 December 1998)

That this House notes that the Labour candidate, Kathleen Walker Shaw, came third in the North-East Scotland Euro By-Election, receiving a mere 18 per cent. of the vote, and that one reason was no doubt the reaction of voters to the candidate's false claim to have been born in Aberdeen a claim subsequently retracted and replaced with the bizarre claim that she had been conceived there; and further notes with concern that the effects of the Government's proposals for european elections are that the electorate would be unable to register a vote against a particular candidate who, for example, has misled the electorate, that Mrs Walker Shaw could be elected nonetheless under the closed list system because she is in a high position on Labour's list, and that under the proposed system such by-elections would not take place in future.

Sponsored by:
Lord Hamilton of Epsom (Conservative)