Lord Clarke was health secretary in Margaret Thatcher's government and was criticised heavily in an inquiry report.
Victims of the infected blood scandal have called for former health secretary Ken Clarke to be stripped of his peerage. Lord Clarke was heavily criticised in a report by Sir Brian Langstaff, chair of a seven-year inquiry into the scandal that killed more than 3,000 and infected more than 30,000 Britons with HIV and Hepatitis C with infected blood products between the 1970s and early 1990s.
'He and Jeremy Hunt should be arrested for their deceit and the arrogance they showed during the inquiry.' Current government minister Mel Stride told Sky News Lord Clarke has always been 'a decent and nice man' to him, and 'always been very polite and kind to me'. But he said he is 'concerned' by the points raised about Lord Clarke in the inquiry report and 'there are clearly questions that are being posed that need to be addressed'.
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