The Ali Miraj saga takes another twist with a piece by him in The Sunday Times alleging that a current member of the shadow cabinet offered him a peerage soon after 7/7. Miraj writes that:
In the grand scheme of things, this whole dispute isn’t that important. But it does seem to sum up Cameron’s current problems. At the moment that he should be trying to put Brown on the back foot he is instead engaged in an unedifying spat of his own creation with a minor member of his party.“What is not commonly known is that I was, in fact, asked whether I would consider accepting a seat in the Lords in 2005 following the 7/7 London bombings tragedy, when the party was seeking to appoint a “Muslim” parliamentarian to that House. The approach was made by a present member of the shadow cabinet and I declined it. I am choosing not to disclose names at this time, but should the party elect to have selective amnesia on this issue, naming the individual concerned will be the only logical response.”
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