Ken Clarke Facing Calls To Be Stripped Of His Peerage Over Infected Blood Response

Ken Clarke was made a life peer after leaving the Commons.

Former Tory health secretary Ken Clarke is facing calls to be stripped of his peerage over his handling of the infected blood scandal in the 1980s.

The peer came in for strong criticism in Sir Brian Langstaff’s damning report into the affair, which was published yesterday.

Tens of thousands of NHS patients were infected with HIV and hepatitis B and C after being treated in the 1970s, 80s and 90s with contaminated blood products imported from the United States.