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Lord offered campaigner peerage in return for sex

Jasvinder Sanghera

By: Keerthi Mohan

Jasvinder Sanghera, a leading women’s rights campaigner who was promised a peerage if she had sex with a senior member of the Lords, has urged other parliamentary victims of sexual misconduct to come forward. In an interview with The Times, Sanghera revealed she was the woman who lodged a complaint against the former Liberal Democrat frontbencher Lord Lester of Herne Hill. She has accused Lord Lester of sexually harassing more than a decade ago. Sanghera told The Times her decision to complain was prompted by a need to establish that “what he did to me wasn’t acceptable and wasn’t honourable”. “There…

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