The Harry Potter author, who was responding to comments by Conservative leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch, says Labour and Conservative governments have offered her a peerage.
JK Rowling has revealed she turned down two offers of a peerage and would not accept one if offered again. The Harry Potter author made the revelation after Tory leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch said she would offer Rowling a peerage after praising her for her contributions to the transgender debate. Rowling posted on X: 'It's considered bad form to talk about this but I'll make an exception given the very particular circumstances.
Ms Badenoch told the Talk online streaming service that Rowling and Dr Hilary Cass, the author of the Cass review, were 'attacked relentlessly by all sorts of oddballs and bad people'. The Conservative MP was then asked if she would give Rowling a peerage. She said: 'I would. I don't know whether she would take it. 'I certainly would give her a peerage.
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