A baroness has been recommended for three weeks' suspension from the House of Lords for calling a peer 'Lord Poppadom' and touching an MP's braids without her permission.
A baroness has been recommended for three weeks' suspension from the House of Lords for calling a peer 'Lord Poppadom' and touching an MP's braids without her permission. Baroness Catherine Meyer is accused of referring to Lord Dholakia as 'Lord Poppadom' twice during a taxi journey while on a visit to Rwanda with parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights in February.
But after evidence from two witnesses, including Ms Ribeiro-Addy, she admitted the incident took place at the end of a long day and after a dinner where she had drunk 'possibly three glasses of wine'. She then acknowledged: 'It is possible I said it, but I don't remember.' Lady Meyer did not deny the incident with Ms Ribeiro-Addy and said she had intended it as a friendly gesture and had been 'entirely unaware' it would be unwelcome, the report said.
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