Re: Lord David Steel resigns from LDs and retires from the HoL Archived Message Posted by Mary on February 25, 2020, 4:21 pm, in reply to "Lord David Steel resigns from LDs and retires from the HoL" 'On 14 March 2019, Steel was suspended by the Liberal Democrats after an admission that discussions he had conducted in 1979 with the then Liberal MP for Rochdale Cyril Smith, at a time when Steel was leader of the Liberal Party, had led him to conclude that Smith had been a sexual abuser of children in the 1960s and that Steel nonetheless failed to instigate any assessment by the party of whether Smith was an on-going risk to children. Richard Scorer, representing victims at the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, called for him to be stripped of his peerage. On 14 May 2019, the Liberal Democrats ruled that there were 'no grounds for action' against Steel and reinstated him to party membership. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Steel !! Message Thread: Lord David Steel resigns from LDs and retires from the HoL - Mary February 25, 2020, 4:18 pm Re: Lord David Steel resigns from LDs and retires from the HoL - Mary February 25, 2020, 4:21 pm Re: Lord David Steel resigns from LDs and retires from the HoL - Mary February 25, 2020, 4:26 pm Re: Lord David Steel resigns from LDs and retires from the HoL - Gerard February 25, 2020, 4:21 pm Nope.. - Gerard February 25, 2020, 4:23 pm Didn't realise Steel was still alive - nm - psingh February 25, 2020, 7:05 pm ;o) you don't die when your mouth is full of public money....nm - Keith-264 February 27, 2020, 3:12 am   Searching