LONDON:Lord John Sewel resigned as Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords on Sunday after a newspaper published footage showing him partying semi-nude with two women and snorting a white powder.

Sewel, a senior peer who was responsible for enforcing standards in the upper house, was accused of using prostitutes and taking cocaine by The Sun on Sunday.

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