Lord Greg Barker

[TedM]

Announced today.

Full list of new peers and other honours - BBC News

 

[SRE]

The World has gone mad!

 

[telectrix]

My dog has done more good for mankind than most of those non-entities.

 

[Gavin A]

come back, all is forgiven.

 

[The Solar King]

Who was it he left his wife for?

 

[TedM]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Banks-Blaney

 

[The Solar King]

....But I couldn't possibly comment.

 

[Energetic]

In 2010 Banks-Blaney said that the 2008 parting from Barker had been bitter: "If you are with someone who tells you weekly, if not daily, that you are ageing badly, you have saggy eyes, you’re wide-hipped, no spring chicken, that you need to hone your skills at the dinner table, that there’s basically something wrong with every aspect of you, you start to believe it.” In 2011 Liz Jones wrote in The Daily Mail ‘It’s safe to say that William wasn’t treated very well by his lover, or by the press’.