A SCOTTISH Labour peer has left the Government after just five months in post.
Claude Moraes was appointed as a Government whip in the upper chamber in February and it was announced he had given up the position on Tuesday.
Baron Moraes of Hawkhill, in reference to a thoroughfare in Dundee, is replaced by Gerard Lemos.
Lord Lamos is a former colleague of Keir Starmer’s, with both men having worked at the Crown Prosecution Service at the same time.
No reason was given for Lord Moraes’s (below, left) departure.
Born in Aden, Yemen, Lord Moraes attended high school in Stirling and studied at [[Dundee]] University before postgraduate studies in London.
He was elected to the European Parliament for Labour in 1999 and was hailed as one of the 40 MEPs “who actually matter” by Politico in 2016.
He was praised for “leading the Parliament’s inquiry into mass surveillance, following the Edward Snowden leaks, and won the leadership of LIBE, the Parliament’s civil liberties, justice and home affairs committee as a result”.
