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JOURNALISTIC STANDARDS AND THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

EDM (Early Day Motion) 184A1: tabled on 13 November 2007

Tabled in the 2007-08 session.

This motion has been signed by 1 Member. It is an amendment to an existing motion.The tabling Member has subsequently withdrawn this motion.

As this motion is using historical data, we may not have the record of the original ordering, in which case signatories are listed alphabetically.

This motion has subsequently been withdrawn by the tabling Member.

This is an amendment to an existing motion

This motion was originally tabled by Sir Gerald Kaufman on 12 November 2007. This is amendment number 1.

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Suggested amendment

leave out `corroborated' and insert `failed to corroborate'.

Original motion text

That this House notes that, after the Prime Minister stated in this House on 6th November that the Government was planning to reform inheritance tax before this year's Conservative Party conference and that documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 would confirm his statement, the Daily Telegraph requested the relevant Treasury papers under Labour's Freedom of Information Act; notes that these papers corroborated what the Prime Minister had said; further notes that the Daily Telegraph published the outcome of its inquiries in a three-inch story at the bottom of the seventh column on page two in its issue of 9th November; wonders what prominence the Daily Telegraph would have given this story if the Prime Minister's statement had not been borne out; and wonders, further, how this salutary episode conforms with the high journalistic standards established for the Daily Telegraph by William Deedes and other distinguished editors.

The first 6 Members who have signed to support the motion are the sponsors. The primary sponsor is generally the person who tabled the motion and has responsibility for it. The date shown is when the Member signed the motion.

There are no withdrawn signatures for this amendment.