Acoording to the BBC:-
Lord Laidlaw of Rothiemay , a leading Conservative Party donor , is still a tax exile three years after agreeing to become a UK resident to gain a peerage . When Lord Laidlaw was proposed for a working peerage in 2004 he agreed to a Lords' Appointments Commission request to renounce his tax exile status.
Last year, he was named as Scotland's second richest person, with a fortune of £730 million from conference and media enterprises. Laidlaw loaned the Tory party £3.5 million.
The Lords' Appointments Commission will "name and shame" him in a forthcoming review, but has no formal power to revoke his peerage.
Socialist Courier happily adds his name to our list of social parasites .
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