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Lord Nazir Ahmed retires days before expulsion from UK House of Lords
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Lord Nazir Ahmed retires days before expulsion from UK House of Lords

Amid multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, Lord Nazir Ahmed, a member of the United Kingdom’s House of Lords, retired from Parliament after seeing a conduct report recommending that he be expelled for sexually exploiting a vulnerable woman.Lord Ahmed resigned from the House of Lords on 14 November but the report, which was agreed by the House of Lords Conduct Committee and seen by Lord Ahmed before that date, recommends that he should have been expelled.In 2019, Lord Nazir Ahmed was accused of exploiting his position to pursue sex with vulnerable women who asked him for help. As per media reports, Lord Ahmed emotionally and sexually exploited Tahira Zaman, who came to him for help in 2017."...Lord Ahmed breached the Code of Conduct by failing to act on his personal honour in the disch