Baroness Jenny Tonge (screen capture: YouTube)
Baroness Jenny Tonge, who was suspended from the British Liberal Democrat party for anti-Israel rhetoric and has faced numerous accusations of anti-Semitism, will step down from the House of Lords on February 19, she said Thursday.
“I have always promised myself and my family that I would retire when I am 80 years old which is in mid- February. I informed the authorities some months ago,” she told the UK Jewish News. “Indeed I think many of us should retire from the Chamber at my age there are far too many people in the [House of] Lords.”