Scandals that have plagued Lords
THE House of Lords has been rocked by many scandals over the years.
Most notoriously, Lord Archer, 77, was jailed in 2001 after it emerged he had lied in a 1987 libel case.
A Mirror probe found disgraced Tory peer Lord Hanningfield claimed £3,300 in allowances over 11 days by “clocking on” but spending as little as 21 minutes in Westminster.
The 76-year-old, jailed in 2011 for fiddling £14,000 in expenses, was cleared of false accounting last year when Parliament intervened.
In 2015 Labour peer Lord Sewel, 71, resigned after footage showed him with two prostitutes, snorting what appeared to be cocaine. And Lord John Taylor of Warwick, 64, got jail in 2011 for cheating taxpayers out of £11,000 by lying about where he lived. LATEST ROW Mone