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Should Ken Clarke be stripped of his peerage? | LBC debate
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15:25Now PlayingIain Dale’s Cross Question panel discuss whether ex-Health Secretary Lord Ken Clarke should have his peerage removed amid criticism of him for the infected blood scandal.
Leader of the Alba Party, Alex Salmond, says he shouldn't, because 'you'd have to punish everyone else’.
Conservative MP Heather Wheeler, meanwhile, says that ‘in every job that Ken Clarke took on, he was just one of those very bullish guys’ and blames this on his ‘lack of self-doubt’.
Green Party’s Caroline Lucas says: ‘We need to see some kind of justice for those who have lied and got away with it in the past, and if that means he peerage needs to be removed, then so be it’.
In the 1980s, the government decided against any form of compensation to people infected with HIV, with Lord Ken Clarke, who was health minister at the time, saying there would be no state scheme to compensate those suffering "the unavoidable adverse effects" of medical procedures.
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