JK Rowling says she’s turned down a peerage TWICE after Kemi Badenoch called for author to get seat in Lords [Video]

HARRY Potter author JK Rowling yesterday said she had twice turned down a peerage.

She spoke out after Tory leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch called for her to be given a seat in the House of Lords.

The shadow communities secretary praised Rowling’s stance on sex-based rights last week stating: “I would give her a peerage.”

The former equalities minister hit out at “oddballs and bad people” who have campaigned against women’s rights.

It came after Rowling joined almost 3,000 others in using the census to protest against the Scottish Government allowing people to self-identify their sex in the survey earlier this month.

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