Orders of the Day — Obscene Publications Bill

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 9:36 am on 3 April 1987.

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Photo of Gerald Howarth Gerald Howarth , Cannock and Burntwood 9:36, 3 April 1987

My party has no wish to see the war that I mentioned repeated on the air waves.

There is a new Sunday newspaper ostensibly devoted to sport, more than one third of which is given over to pictures of busty women. The advertisements are for racy videos, naughty leather catalogues with a free bullwhip and devices that are euphemistically called love aids.