JK Rowling says she’s turned down a peerage TWICE after Kemi Badenoch called for author to get seat in Lords
HARRY Potter author JK Rowling yesterday said she had twice turned down a peerage.
She spoke out after Tory leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch called for her to be given a seat in the House of Lords.
The shadow communities secretary praised Rowling’s stance on sex-based rights last week stating: “I would give her a peerage.”
The former equalities minister hit out at “oddballs and bad people” who have campaigned against women’s rights.
It came after Rowling joined almost 3,000 others in using the census to protest against the Scottish Government allowing people to self-identify their sex in the survey earlier this month.
National Records of Scotland say 2,883 people recorded “believer in biology” or similar to answer 21 of the 2022 census amid controversy over SNP plans to introduce controversial gender reforms.
But yesterday on social media Rowling said: “It’s considered bad form to talk about this but I’ll make an exception given the very particular circumstances.
“I’ve already turned down a peerage twice, once under Labour and once under the Tories.
“If offered one a third time, I still wouldn’t take it.
“It’s not her, it’s me.”