Peers protest at suspension of Baroness Meyer for 'calling Indian colleague Lord Poppadom'
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A group of peers are protesting against a suspension from the House of Lords for a baroness who called a British-Asian colleague 'Lord Poppadom'. Catherine Meyer was last week found to have breached harassment rules with her behaviour towards both Lord Dholakia and Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy.
![[The Tory peer is said to have referred to Lord Dholakia as 'Lord Poppadom' during a taxi journey on a parliamentary committee trip to Rwanda]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/17/15/93080609-0-The_Lords_Conduct_Committee_upheld_a_complaint_that_she_referred-m-25_1734449705537.jpg)
The Tory peer is said to have referred to Lord Dholakia as 'Lord Poppadom' during a taxi journey on a parliamentary committee trip to Rwanda. She was also alleged to have touched Ms Ribeiro-Addy's hair without permission in a separate incident on the same visit in February.
![[She was also alleged to have touched Ms Ribeiro-Addy's hair without permission in a separate incident on the same visit in February]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/17/15/93080363-0-Later_on_the_same_trip_by_the_Joint_Committee_on_Human_Rights_JC-m-27_1734449756255.jpg)
A watchdog recommended a three-week suspension from the Lords as a sanction, as well as for Baroness Meyer to undertake 'bespoke behaviour training'. But, in a letter to the Telegraph, a group of 27 fellow peers has claimed Baroness Meyer was denied 'natural justice' by the Lords' standards commissioner.
They said the procedure followed by the commissioner under the Lords' code of conduct was 'at fault'. Catherine Meyer was found to have breached harassment rules with her behaviour towards both Lord Dholakia and Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy. The Tory peer is said to have referred to Lord Dholakia as 'Lord Poppadom' during a taxi journey on a parliamentary committee trip to Rwanda.
She was also alleged to have touched Ms Ribeiro-Addy's hair without permission in a separate incident on the same visit in February. In a letter to the Telegraph, a group of 27 fellow peers has claimed Baroness Meyer was denied 'natural justice' by the Lords' standards commissioner.
