IT would be an “insult” for the hereditary peer who was found to have breached the Lords’ code of conduct to only receive a brief suspension, an SNP MP has said.
Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, the “Earl of Shrewsbury”, approached UK ministers during the pandemic on behalf of a healthcare company which was paying him £3000 a month.
Chetwynd-Talbot, who had the Conservative whip until October, has a seat in the House of Lords by accident of birth. He is descended from John Talbot, a military commander from the Hundred Years’ War (which ended in 1453).
