All-party move to honour Profumo.A BID by MPs from all political parties forformer Stratford Conservative MP John Profumo John Dennis Profumo, CBE (January 30, 1915 – March 9, 2006), informally known as Jack Profumo, was a British politician. He also held the Sardinian title Baron Profumo. to be honoured by the government is gathering momentum. A motion calling for the 88-year-old former War Secretary to be reinstated as a Privy Councillor has been signed by more than 30 MPs. The campaign, launched in May, is led by Labour MP Frank Field, who wrote to Tony Blair calling for Mr Profumo to be reinstated as a member of the Privy Council Privy Council Historically, the British sovereign's private council. Once powerful, the Privy Council has long ceased to be an active body, having lost most of its judicial and political functions since the middle of the 17th century. , an important and historic body which oversees Parliamentary procedures. Mr Profumo resigned from the Commons as Harold Macmillan's War Minister in 1963, amid a blaze of publicity over his affair with call girl Christine Keeler, who was also involved with a Russian spy. The 31 MPs have signed a motion calling on the House of Commons House of Commons: see Parliament. to publicly recognise that Britain owes Mr Profumo a huge debt of gratitude for helping topple Neville Chamberlain's government and make Winston Churchill our wartime leader. CAPTION(S): SCANDAL: John Profumo |
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