Unschooled and unemployed children are increasingly being recruited – sometimes forcibly – to fill the ranks of Boko Haram and unleash violence against their peers, the Guardian has learned.
However, the Liberal Democrat peer told the Guardian he provided confidential advice to several clients from around the world, both companies and individuals.
Another peer told the Guardian that many members of the upper house work very hard, but are not necessarily in the chamber if they are working on committees or campaigns in their offices.
Lord Bilimoria, the independent cross-bench peer, told the Guardian that he was "unhappy" that the letter, which first appeared in the Daily Telegraph on Wednesday, gave the impression that he was a Conservative party supporter.
Leading Conservatives are playing a "short term and dangerous" game that threatens the future of the UK by building up the SNP as a way of damaging the Labour party in Scotland, Lord Forsyth, the senior Tory peer, has told the Guardian.
Two peers privately told the Guardian that it was well known among House of Lords staff that a small band of peers regularly appeared at the House of Lords to register their appearance so they could claim the allowance.
The Post and the Guardian's peers could have left them alone and exposed.
We'll soon be tethered like goats to our desks, little troughs of coffee keeping us awake, and beady-eyed Guardian readers peering intently at us over the hedge that has just sprung up behind the fax.
Lord Paul, the Labour donor who has been criticised for his non-domiciled tax status, has told the Guardian all peers should be required to publish all their tax returns for the past 20 years.
But I suspect it reads the public mood better than the cheerfully cynical "free press" letter from 86 MPs and peers, which both the Guardian and Telegraph publish today.
