WARRINGTON North MP Charlotte Nichols has described Claire Fox’s House of Lords introduction as an ‘insult to Warrington.’
Earlier today the former Brexit Euro MEP was sworn in as a member of the House of Lords, following a nomination in the summer.
She was a leading member of the Revolutionary Communist Party and has never apologised for their defence of the Warrington bombings in the days after the event in March 1993, which claimed the lives of 12-year-old Tim Parry and three-year-old Johnathan Ball, while also injuring more than 50 people out shopping the day before Mother’s Day.
As a member of the House of Lords Fox is entitled to claim £323 per day for attendance.
Since the announcement of Fox’s nomination, Ms Nichols has been working tirelessly to raise this issue and underline the hurt that it has caused to people in Warrington.
Ms Nichols said: “Claire Fox’s introduction to the Lords today is an insult to Warrington.
The Chair of the House of Lords Appointments Commission, Lord Bew, made clear to me that ‘The Prime Minister makes the final decision on whether to recommend to Her Majesty that an individual is granted a peerage’.
The blame for this disgraceful decision lies squarely at Boris Johnson’s feet.”
Warrington South MP Andy Carter has previously said:“Ms Fox isn’t a Conservative politician, she hasn’t been nominated by the Conservative party and won’t sit in the House of a Lords as a Conservative Peer”.
“I don’t subscribe to her politics and I certainly don’t agree with the comments she made following the Warrington bombing in 1993, it’s a terrible shame that she hasn’t been unequivocal with an apology for what she said at the time”.
“I will be very clear, I do not support her appointment to the House of Lords and I understand fully why so many people in Warrington feel the same”.
Utterly disgraceful to see Claire Fox sworn into the House of Lords today. @BorisJohnson had the final say on her peerage and did nothing to block it, despite all the hurt it has caused in Warrington #ForFoxSake pic.twitter.com/bn6A8zaGFP
— Charlotte Nichols (@charlotte2153) October 8, 2020
Yep, it literally couldn't be clearer- here in black and white from the Chair of the House of Lords Appointments Commission. The blame lies at Boris Johnson's feet and no spin changes that fact pic.twitter.com/ukubRpdvHc
— Charlotte Nichols (@charlotte2153) October 8, 2020
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