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A Tory peer has resigned the government whip after he was found to have bullied and harassed two people while drunk.
Lord Ranger, a former adviser to Boris Johnson, faces being banned from the House of Lords bars following an investigation into his conduct.
He has apologised for his behaviour and given up the whip – meaning he will have to sit as a non-aligned peer.
A statement from the whip’s office said: “Lord Ranger has resigned the government whip and apologised for his actions, which were an unacceptable breach of the standards of the House, and of parliament.
“The committee has recommended a sanction, which should be respected.”
The House of Lords Conduct Committee recommended Lord Ranger be suspended from the House for three weeks following an investigation into an incident in parliament’s Strangers’ Bar in January.
The committee also recommended he be banned from the House of Lords bars for 12 months.
The committee’s report said Lord Ranger had been “visibly drunk” and made “various inappropriate comments” to a group of people.
He then returned to the same group and “acted aggressively, shouting and swearing”, calling them “f*****g useless” and “invading their personal space”.
Lord Ranger served as Mr Johnson’s transport advisor when he was Mayor of London and was ennobled in the former prime minister’s resignation honours list.
He subsequently apologised to the complainants, saying he did not recall the incident but was “deeply mortified at the descriptions of my behaviour” and “saddened to hear that I caused you distress”.
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