Labour peer suspended over sexual harassment and transphobia

Lord Stone also used racial slurs while giving evidence to Lords standards committee. The Labour party has suspended a peer after the House of Lords standards committee found that he had harassed four female colleagues and made transphobic remarks. The independent commissioner for standards, Lucy Scott-Moncrieff, upheld a series of complaints made against Andrew Stone in a report published on Wednesday. Lord Stone, a former managing director of Marks and Spencer, also repeatedly used the N-word