{"id":52268,"date":"2023-02-01T03:18:47","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T18:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2023\/jan\/31\/tory-peer-withdraws-racially-charged-comments"},"modified":"2023-02-01T03:18:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T18:18:47","slug":"tory-peer-withdraws-racially-charged-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52268","title":{"rendered":"Tory peer withdraws \u2018racially charged\u2019 comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Rami Ranger criticised over comments about Pakistani journalists <\/p>\n<p>A Conservative peer has apologised and withdrawn comments that were criticised for being \u201cracially charged\u201d, as a second referral about his conduct was made to the House of Lords standards watchdog.<\/p>\n<p>Rami Ranger, a major Conservative party donor, admitted that remarks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2023\/jan\/30\/tory-peer-accused-of-racially-charged-attack-on-bbc-modi-documentary\">unearthed by the Guardian<\/a> that he made in a letter regarding Pakistani journalists and a later TV interview about grooming and drug dealing had \u201ccaused offence\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2023\/jan\/31\/tory-peer-withdraws-racially-charged-comments\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Rami Ranger criticised over comments about Pakistani journalists A Conservative peer has apologised and withdrawn comments that were criticised for being \u201cracially charged\u201d, as a second referral about his conduct was made to the House of Lor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1762,1831,62,433,4,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bbc","category-house-of-lords","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52269,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52268\/revisions\/52269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}