PRESS RELEASE : 56,000 WEIGH IN WITH `KEEP THE POUND’ CALL (2000)

The press release issued by the Conservative Party on 24 November 2000.

56,000 WEIGH IN WITH `KEEP THE POUND’ CALL

Conservative MP Richard Shepherd today presented a Keep the Pound petition signed by a massive 56,286 people to the Commons

The petition, carried into the chamber in boxes marked Keep the Pound, urges the Government to listen to the people and retain Britain’s currency.

We the people are being led into a federal state which we do not wish to be part of. We wish to remain an independent sovereign state with the economy run for the benefit of our own citizens,” the petition said.

Mr Shepherd (Aldridge Brownhills) said: “The petition has been gathered and signed by people supporting all the political parties and those supporting none.

It is a genuine expression from across the West Midlands of deep concern for democracy and our control over the economy. It expresses a sense of country.”