Tory peer backs new social site

CONSERVATIVE peer Baroness Warsi has taken a stake in fast-growing social media platform Wakelet, parliamentary disclosures reveal. Wakelet is an online organiser that allows users to curate and share a library of information more easily on the internet.

It is used by students, as well as bodies such as the World Health Organisation, colleges such as Harvard Business School, and is popular among athletes and celebrities.

The Manchester-based firm, founded by former Airbus employee Jamil Khalil, has tripled in size over the past year and now has some 40 staff. It has forged close links to technology giants including Microsoft.

British technology sources said the company was among those expected to be in a wave of success stories after the pandemic. Warsi was Tory co-chair from 2010 to 2012.