Call for Tory peer Michelle Mone to resign as accuser speaks out in alleged racism row

Exclusive: Lord Strasburger says conduct rules need to be strengthened after no action taken against peer following complaint

The Liberal Democrat peer Lord Strasburger has called for the House of Lords’ conduct rules to be strengthened after no action was taken on a complaint that the Conservative peer Michelle Mone allegedly sent a racist message to a man of Indian heritage.

Strasburger has also said Mone should resign from the Lords due to the complaint, which alleges that she told the man, Richard Lynton-Jones, he was “a waste of a man’s white skin”. Mone is accused of sending the messages, screenshots of which have been seen by the Guardian, during a disagreement following a fatal yacht crash off Monaco in May 2019.

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