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McKenzie Wolford texts with Tecola Patterson so often that she often sends her “kind emojis” so she doesn’t feel too overwhelmed. “I feel like I’m contacting her all the time,”

Eight per cent of all MPs haven't attended misconduct training in parliament.

David Warburton, 56, wrote to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) on March 12 last year, describing Roman Joukovski as an honest and straightforward person whom I trust.

22 Jul 2021 Two members of the House of Lords in their eighties have been banned from parliament’s bars, restaurants, and the library for refusing to undertake reeducation on sexual harassment and bullying. On Tuesday, members of the upper house voted by 315 to 86 to ban hereditary Peer Lord Willoughby de Broke, 82, and Lord Kalms, 89, formerly the chairman of Dixons Retail, from the facilities because they had refused the much-criticised “Valuing Everyone” training. A House of Lords spok...

The House of Lords has been accused of treating peers like recalcitrant schoolboys after banning two octogenarians from Parliaments bars and restaurants for failing to attend a sexual harassment workshop. Friends of Lord Kalms, 89, and Lord Willoughby de Broke, 82, branded the punishment ridiculous following the fallout over the mandatory Valuing Everyone classes. The pair - along with Lord James - were threatened with the exclusion earlier this month and the authorities have now acted. The V...

LORD HESELTINE: Lord Adams is a lecherous old fool who harasses his staff. He should be evicted from the House of Lords as a disgrace to Parliament. Except he isnt real, of course...

MPs have called on Parliaments ethics watchdog to immediately drop its investigation into 91-year-old Baroness Boothroyd for failing to attend a sexual harassment course. The Mail on Sunday last week revealed the Lords Standards Commissioner had opened a formal probe into the pioneering politician, despite knowing she is recovering from open-heart surgery. Senior Labour MP Graham Stringer said: This treatment of a 91-year-old woman recovering from heart surgery is making the House of Lords into...

Anti-Bullying Training for Peers Branded ‘Expensive Farce’ Senior Tory peers have branded compulsory behavioural training for members of the Lords an “expensive farce.” The anti-bullying, discrimination, and sexual harassment workshops were also condemned as a “complete waste of time” and “patronising.” The comments came after it was reported that 60 peers had fallen foul of the Lords authorities because they had not completed Valuing Everyone training.Former Commons speaker Bar...

© Reuters / Kirsty Wigglesworth FILE PHOTO. House of Lords in London, Britain. The UK Parliament has issued gag orders to a number of senior peers in the House of Lords, after an investigation found 60 honourable members had failed to participate in mandatory values workshops. The virtual course, titled Valuing Everyone, was instituted by Parliament as part of a conduct makeover last year and deals with anti-bullying, discrimination and sexual harassment. Members were given until April 1 to c...

Last weekend, my friend Hilary called. How about Sunday lunch in a country pub garden? She would drive, she knew a good place and had managed to get an outdoor booking for two at 12.15pm. A bit early, but every other pub she’d called seemed to be fully booked until August. The sun was shining, the prospect of getting out of town and not having to cook was overwhelmingly tempting, but I hesitated. Was it allowed? We are very close friends and neighbours but we’re not in a bubble. Would we be...