The Latest Breaking News from Rami Ranger

Donor suspended from Tories pays £50,000 for dinner with Kemi Badenoch

Exclusive: Rami Ranger, who was suspended for a year in 2023, makes successful bid at party fundraising event

The Guardian - UK · Feb 21

Cash before honours: the Tory donors made peers who barely speak in Lords

Critics say perception that peerages may be a reward for donations harms upper house’s reputation – especially when peers do little to participate

The Guardian - UK · Mar 9, 2025

Tory peer and donor Lord Ranger says forfeiture of his CBE was ‘unjust’

The Conservative peer, who has donated around £1.5 million to the party, forfeited his CBE for ‘bringing the honours system into disrepute’.

Evening Standard · Dec 6, 2024

Tory peer ‘undermined and humiliated’ journalist, finds Lords commissioner

Exclusive: Rami Ranger apologises and promises to attend behaviour course after report into his conduct towards Poonam Joshi

The Guardian - UK · Jun 13, 2023

What is the BBC Modi documentary and why is it so controversial?

‘India: the Modi Question’, examining 2002 sectarian riots, comes at sensitive time for prime minister

The Guardian - UK · Feb 14, 2023

Tory peer withdraws ‘racially charged’ comments

Exclusive: Rami Ranger criticised over comments about Pakistani journalists

The Guardian - UK · Jan 31, 2023

Tory peer accused of ‘racially charged’ attack on BBC Modi documentary

Exclusive: Rami Ranger faces criticism over ‘deplorable’ comments about Pakistani journalists at the corporation

The Guardian - UK · Jan 30, 2023

Lords inquiry launched into Tory peer accused of bullying female journalist

Rami Ranger alleged to have mounted campaign of harassment against reporter who investigated his links to an Indian guru

The Guardian - UK · Dec 20, 2022

Tories invited UK representative of fugitive Hindu guru to party at House of Lords

The delegate for the controversial ‘godman’ Nithyananda, who fled India in 2019, was invited to the Diwali party by two senior Conservatives

The Guardian - UK · Dec 11, 2022

Major Tory donor threatened to 'expose' Treasurer after row at 'unity dinner'

Lord Rami Ranger, who has given £1.3 million to the party personally and through his firm Sun Mark, accused Treasurer Malik Karim of being rude to him at the Global Unity dinner at the Dorchester last week.

Daily Mirror · Jul 23, 2022