worldUpdated: Nov 17, 2020, 21:05 ISTThe conduct committee of the UK’s House of Lords on Tuesday said Nazir Ahmed, a Pakistan-origin member, has resigned but added that it had recommended his expulsion following inquiries that concluded he breached the House’s code of conduct. Ahmed, 63, who has participated in several anti-India demonstrations in London over the years, was a member of the Labour Party until 2013. The committee said, “Lord Ahmed resigned from the House of Lords on November 14 but the report, which was agreed by the committee and seen by Lord Ahmed before that date, recommends that he should have been expelled.”The committee published a report following an appeal by Ahmed against earlier findings by the House’s commissioner for standards into allegations of a sexual nature with a member of the public in 2017. It dismissed the appeal. The committee upheld the findings of the commissioner that Ahmed breached the code of conduct by failing to act on his personal honour in the discharge of his parliamentary activities, and recommended his expulsion from the House, instead of a lengthy suspension.

Source: Hindustan Times November 17, 2020 13:59 UTC