MPs want Morning Star on TV

Thirteen MPs, 12 Labour and one Plaid Cymru, have signed a parliamentary motion calling on the BBC to give greater prominence to socialist daily newspaper the Morning Star.

They want it featured in newspaper reviews "as a matter of course in the interests of fair and balanced reporting".

The MPs include Hayes and Harlington's John McDonnell, Leyton and Wanstead's John Cryer and Islington North's Jeremy Corbyn.

The motion says the paper, founded in 1930 as the organ of the Communist Party of Great Britain, shines a "different light" on news and current affairs from other papers.

It "expresses concern" that the Morning Star is "rarely ever shown on or reported by the BBC on television and radio".

The Morning Star claims to be the only English-language socialist daily newspaper in the world and paints itself as a campaigning voice for the working class.

It was transferred from the CPGB to co-operative ownership in 1945, and remains in the hands of its readers.