Tory donor Lord Rami Ranger has been stripped of his CBE after being accused of harassing a journalist and making a series of derogatory comments on social media.
Lord Ranger, 76, was among six honour holders included in today’s London Gazette update.
The London Gazette’s notice confirmed that King Charles III had directed that the businessman’s Commander of the Order of the British Empire would be “cancelled and annulled”.
Ranger, who donated around £1.5million to the Conservative Party, was handed the gong for services to business and community cohesion in 2016.
Tory donor Lord Rami Ranger stripped of honour over harassment of journalist and derogatory comments about Sikhs
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The Tory peer was ennobled in Theresa May’s 2019 resignation honours.
However, Ranger briefly lost the Tory whip after being censured by the standards commissioner over his conduct towards an Indian journalist Poonam Joshi.
The Conservatives restored the whip to Lord Ranger in November this year.
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