Lords committee defends decision to suspend Anthony Lester

Sexual harassment case was ‘dealt with according to principles of natural justice’A House of Lords committee that suspended a Liberal Democrat peer who it found had sexually harassed a women’s rights campaigner has defended its decision, after the upper house voted to block the punishment.The privileges and conduct committee, which announced last week that it was suspending Anthony Lester after finding that he tried to pressure Jasvinder Sanghera into having sex with him by pro