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Dame Floella Benjamin heads Lib Dems in New Years Honours

By Caron Lindsay | Fri 27th December 2019 - 11:46 pm

The New Year’s Honours have been published and Baroness Floella Benjamin becomes a Dame for services to charity.

The former Play School presenter, now a Lib Dem Peer, spent the weekend after the election on the phone consoling defeated Lib Dem candidates. A friend of mine who received a call from her was absolutely delighted.

Kishan Devani, who joined us from the Conservatives a couple of years ago and was our candidate in Montgomeryshire at the election gets a British Empire Medal. Thanks to Peter Taylor for telling us.

To those of you that said this is not my country:

I've only gone & been awarded a Queen's Honour & made a BEM (British Empire Medal) For Services to Community Cohesion – in the Queen's New Year's Honours List 2020! Thank you @RoyalFamily & @cabinetofficeuk!#NewYearsHonoursList pic.twitter.com/LHUQNrWDM7

— Professor Kishan Devani BEM (@Kishan_Devani) December 27, 2019

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