I wish to present a petition initiated by BBC Radio Suffolk and the East Anglian Daily Times, signed by more than 1,250 Suffolk and East Anglia residents. The petition calls for St Edmund, the former king of East Anglia who was martyred in the year 869 for refusing to renounce his Christianity, to be reinstated as patron saint of England. It states:
The Petition of BBC Radio Suffolk and the East Anglian Daily Times declares that St Edmund should be reinstated as the true and original patron saint of England. The Petitioners therefore request that the House of Commons backs them by formally supporting proceedings to reinstate St Edmund as patron saint of England.
To lie upon the Table.