Peer faces investigation over video allegedly showing him taking cocaine with sex workers and has already quit as deputy speaker of LordsLord Sewel is facing mounting pressure to resign from the House of Lords with immediate effect after the former Commons Speaker,Lady Boothroyd, described him as a “bad apple” who had brought the upper house into disrepute.
As David Cameron endorsed Sewel’s decision to resign as the deputy speaker of the Lords following “very serious allegations” that he took drugs with sex workers, or Boothroyd called on the crossbench peer to “buy a peaceful way out of the back door”.
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Source: theguardian.com