SPOILSPORT MPs last night backed a move to ban The Sun's sizzling Page Three girls.
They voted 97-56 in favour of a bill proposed by Labour's Clare Short which would outlaw our topless pictures in case they encourage men to commit sex attacks.
Mrs Short's attack on the Sun lovelies provoked howls of protest from Tories.
Robert Adey said she should be awarded a booby-prize for trying to destroy "one of life's few remaining pleasures."
And his colleague Edwina Currie said: "I wish I looked like Samantha Fox, and so does my husband."
The bill looks certain to fail through lack of Commons time.
Page 3 will stay
Today,
14 April 1988
MPs yesterday backed Clare Short in her battle to have Page Three girls banned from Britain's newspapers.
They voted by 163 to 48, to give a first reading to her Indecent Displays (Newspapers) Bill. But due to a lack of parliamentary time, the Bill stands virtually no chance of obtaining the three readings it needs to become law.
Miss Short, Labour MP for Birmingham Ladywood, claimed Page Three pictures helped to create a "sex culture which encourages rape and sexual abuse".
She said she had received at least 12 letters from rape victims whose attackers had told them, "they reminded him of a woman on Page Three, or they ought to be on Page Three."
But Eric Forth, Tory MP for Mid-Worcestershire, said the principle of choice was at stake, both for newspaper readers and models.
.lcClare Short's Indecent Displays (Newspapers) Bill provoked a lengthy debate on the propriety of having pictures of naked women in the daily papers. Although she won considerable support outside Parliament, the Bill did not succeed.
