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DISGRACED Lord John Sewel who had been in charge of parliamentary ethics has quit the House of Lords after allegedly snorting cocaine off a prostitute’s breasts, fuelling calls for reform of the ...
Lord Sewel, who drew up the convention setting out that Westminster should not "normally" legislate in devolved areas, said Brexit was a "major constitutional adjustment" that meant the UK ...
The Supreme Court judgement on Article 50 made reference to Sewel Convention 18 times. But what is it and why is it important to Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales?
Lord Sewel was a government minister, not a government official, as incorrectly stated in an article on January 23 ...
Lord Sewel, 69, resigned from his role as chairman of Committees in the Lords in July after an expose in the Sun on Sunday, which apparently showed him snorting white powder from a woman's breast ...
When a video of former Labour minister, Lord Sewel, doing lines of coke with "prostitutes" came out, media everywhere responded with both shock and mockery, but for all the wrong reasons. In fact, ...
Lord John Buttifant Sewel, Baron of Gilcomstoun, CBE, chairman of committees and deputy Speaker of the House of Lords, recently made a splash playing a rather campy and entirely clichéd role as a ...
Rogue peers should be subject to immediate suspension from the House of Lords when scandals break, a senior Labour peer has said.
The downfall of John Sewel can be seen as a morality tale – a case of hubris, or of the last remnants of Westminster’s ancien régime of political corruption. While the events surrounding ...
Sewel’s alleged behaviour has not raised any issue of great constitutional importance but reminds the public of its distaste for the unelected upper house.
John Sewel was a very fine academic who rose from being a research fellow in 1969 to vice-principal of Aberdeen University and Dean of the Faculty of Law in 1995.