Should Shaun Bailey turn down his peerage?
over the weekend, showing staff on Mr Bailey's campaign team drinking and dancing at the event in Tory HQ in London.
Although Mr Bailey does not feature in the footage, he has previously apologised for attending and was pictured in a still image from the event that first emerged in late 2021.He said he had not chosen the team of staff seen in the video, but "the buck eventually stops with me".He has said it would be "for others to decide" whether he takes up his seat.
Matt Fowler, whose father Ian died in 2020, told the Guardian: "For many of us it's much more difficult to see this in person. It's just been a really gut-wrenching experience all around." "I need to let a team work through that, but I think we can all guess which way it will go," he told the News Agents podcast.Life peers can voluntarily resign their membership of the House of Lords, but legislation is required to remove it.
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