Downton Abbey creator Sir Julian Fellowes hadn't voted in the Lords for 11 years. Last night he turned up to help pass a bill to lock up refugee orphans and send gay people back to countries they fled from.

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Partly false. In the 11 years before the Bill consideration referenced in the tweet, Lord Fellowes voted 457 times in the House of Lords – his most recent previous involvement was on the Public Order Bill in March. On July 17 he voted five times on aspects of the Illegal Migration Bill – since passed as the Illegal Migration Act – which does allow the Government to detain unaccompanied children, including orphans, and deport gay people, although not to any country.

Reviewed by PA Media ↗ · July 26, 2023