The European Parliament’s rules committee is to investigate

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Series Details 23/10/97, Volume 3, Number 38
Publication Date 23/10/1997
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Date: 23/10/1997

whether a new UK Labour Party code of conduct for MEPs clashes with the institution's own internal statutes. Four British Euro MPs - Ken Coates, Hugh Kerr, Alex Falconer and Michael Hindley - have been suspended from the European Parliamentary Labour Party after refusing to sign up to new rules forbidding them from commenting publicly on plans to use proportional representation in UK European elections. They claim the instructions violate their right as MEPs to exercise their mandate in complete independence.

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