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Labour peer Baroness Helena Kennedy ‘asked Julian Assange’s alleged victims to drop rape charges’ 

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Labour peer Baroness Helena Kennedy ‘asked Julian Assange’s alleged victims to drop rape charges’ Made suggestion in email sent at height of Assange’s battle against extradition Assange visited Stockholm in 2010 and stayed at the homes of WikiLeaks supporters, including Anna Ardin A photograph obtained by the documentary, to be shown in Sweden tomorrow, shows … Read more

Keir Starmer blocks bid to make leading Sikh independence supporter a peer in ‘extremism row’

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Keir Starmer blocks bid to make leading Sikh independence supporter a peer in ‘extremism row’ Senior public official Dabinderjit Singh Sidhu is denied peerage by Labour leader Mr Singh is a long-standing campaigner for a sovereign Sikh state in the Punjab On the day of the announcement he was told Sir Keir withdrew his nomination  By … Read more

Disgraced ex-Tory treasurer who gave the party £3.5m made life peer

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Boris Johnson is facing a cronyism row after he appointed a controversial ex-Tory treasurer as a life peer, overruling objections from an independent committee. Banker Peter Cruddas, who is worth a reported £860million, is a long time Conservative donor who has given the party more than £3.5million.  The so-called ‘City of London’s richest man’ has now been … Read more

BBC Radio 3 accused of being ‘infected by relentless wokeness’ by Tory peer

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BBC Radio 3 is accused of becoming ‘infected by relentless wokeness’ by Tory peer Lord Moylan who’s listened to classic station for nearly 50 years Lord Daniel Moylan said the station was ‘infected by sort of relentless wokeness’ Comment came during House of Lords discussion on public broadcasters Government has previously been accused of seeking … Read more

Tory peer Lord Forsyth condemns Netflix for refusing to warn viewers The Crown is fiction

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Tory peer Lord Forsyth condemns Netflix for refusing to warn viewers The Crown is fiction Lord Forsyth today waded into the row between Netflix and Oliver Dowden The former cabinet minister said Netflix should be brought to heel by Ofcom  Viewers have criticised The Crown’s fourth season for depiction of monarchy  By Jack Elsom For … Read more

NI peer who once compared homosexuality to bestiality banned from Lords for bullying gay MPs

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Northern Irish peer Lord Maginnis, who once compared homosexuality to bestiality, faces 18-month BAN from the House of Lords for bullying gay MPs and abusing a parliamentary security guard By David Wilcock, Whitehall Correspondent For Mailonline Published: 11:06 GMT, 3 December 2020 | Updated: 11:06 GMT, 3 December 2020 A Northern Irish peer is facing … Read more

Peer Lord Kilclooney denies racist after calling US vice president-elect Kamala Harris ‘the Indian’

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Northern Irish peer Lord Kilclooney denies being racist by describing US vice president-elect Kamala Harris as ‘the Indian’ – insisting he ‘is very fond of India myself’ Lord Kilclooney, 82, is the former deputy leader of the Ulster Unionist Party  He previously deleted tweet calling Taoiseach Leo Varadkar a ‘typical Indian’ Ms Harris is an American … Read more

Brexit: UK ‘less useful’ to US if Biden wins election, says peer

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Lord Ricketts, the ex-ambassador to France, said that the election of the Democrat to replace Donald Trump would leave the UK as an ‘outlier’, with the White House’s European focus on Paris and Berlin instead Brexit Britain faces being sidelined in favour of continental Europe if Joe Biden wins the US presidential election next week, … Read more

Blind UK Tory: Peer accused of groping masseuse claims he ‘traced silhouette to feel comfortable’ 

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A blind Tory peer accused of groping a masseuse claimed today that he felt ‘vulnerable and ‘traced her silhouette to feel comfortable’.  Lord Christopher Holmes of Richmond MBE, 48, allegedly pointed to his crotch and asked if the woman did ‘extras’ at a five star hotel’s spa on March 7 last year. The peer vehemently … Read more