What is Anthony Lester, Baron Lester of Herne Hill?
[[File:official portrait of Lord Lester of Herne Hill crop 2.jpg|right|200px]] '''Anthony Paul Lester''', '''Baron Lester of Herne Hill''', [[Queen's Counsel|QC]] (3 July 1936 – 8 August 2020) was a British [[barrister]] and politician. He sat in the [[House of Lords]] as a non-affiliated peer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-lester-of-herne-hill/2037|title=Lord Lester of Herne Hill|website=UK Parliament|language=en|access-date=2018-11-12}}</ref> He was born into a [[Jewish]] family<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-special-reports/aye-to-150-years-jewish-mps|website=The Jewish Chronicle|title=Aye! To 150 years of Jewish MPs|first=Dana|last=Gloger|date=11 July 2008|access-date=15 November 2018|archive-date=6 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161206115323/http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-special-reports/aye-to-150-years-jewish-mps|url-status=dead}}</ref> in [[London]]. n 29 June 2007, Lester was appointed by Prime Minister [[Gordon Brown]] as a special adviser on [[constitutional reform]] to the [[Secretary of State for Justice]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page12225.asp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070701194808/http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page12225.asp|archive-date=1 July 2007|title=Brown unveils new faces|date=29 June 2007}}</ref> Lester's [[life peer|peerage]] was announced on 13 August 1993. Until sexual harassment claims arose in February 2018, Lord Lester sat as a [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrat]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-46178207|title=Peer faces suspension over sex claims case|date=2018-11-12|work=BBC News|access-date=2018-11-12|language=en-GB}}</ref> On 12 November 2018, the House of Lords [[Committee for Privileges and Conduct]] supported a recommendation that Lord Lester be suspended from the House of Lords until June 2022 as a result of a complaint of sexual harassment.<ref>{{cite web|first1=Jessica|last1=Elgot|first2=Peter|last2=Walker|url=http