A gay MP has accused a peer of a hate crime and reported him to the police after he referred to her as a “queer”. Hannah Bardell said that Lord Maginnis of Drumglass, an independent Ulster unionist, had verbally abused staff on the parliamentary estate, calling them “crooked”, after he forgot his security pass and they refused his entry. Lord Maginnis Niall Carson/Press Association ArchiveHuffPost UK reported Ms Bardell’s claims, which Lord Maginnis did not deny, and quoted him adding: “Queers like Ms Bardell don’t particularly annoy me. OK, she’s got her cheap publicity out of it.”Lord Maginnis, 81, an MP from 1983 to 2001, told the website: “She and I are known to be on other sides — I am opposed to abortion, I am opposed to gay people…

Source: The Times January 10, 2020 00:04 UTC