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

HARRY Potter writer JK Rowling yesterday said she had doubly turned down a peerage.

She spoke out aft Tory enactment campaigner Kemi Badenoch called for her to beryllium fixed a spot successful the House of Lords.

The shadiness communities caput praised Rowling’s stance connected sex-based rights past week stating: “I would springiness her a peerage.”

The erstwhile equalities curate deed retired astatine “oddballs and atrocious people” who person campaigned against women’s rights.

It came aft Rowling joined astir 3,000 others successful utilizing the census to protestation against the Scottish Government allowing radical to self-identify their enactment successful the survey earlier this month.

National Records of Scotland accidental 2,883 radical recorded “believer successful biology” oregon akin to reply 21 of the 2022 census amid contention implicit SNP plans to present arguable sex reforms.

But yesterday connected societal media Rowling said: “It’s considered atrocious signifier to speech astir this but I’ll marque an objection fixed the precise peculiar circumstances.

“I’ve already turned down a peerage twice, erstwhile nether Labour and erstwhile nether the Tories.

“If offered 1 a 3rd time, I inactive wouldn’t instrumentality it.

“It’s not her, it’s me.”