"
This is frankly unacceptable
".
Peter Hain is an angry lord.
After a first missive that went unheeded last year, the former Labor MP wrote to Prime Minister Boris Johnson again this fall to demand the ennoblement of Lewis Hamilton.
A letter "
which has no place to be
" according to its own author, quoted by
The Guardian
and for whom the Formula 1 driver should for a long time be called "Sir".
“
He should have been knighted already.
Andy Murray, Mo Farah, Bradley Wiggins have been in recent years.
I can not understand why Lewis Hamilton is not,
“insists the politician.
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Across the Channel, the subject has been dividing for a long time.
World championship titles in spades, including the 7th obtained in Turkey a fortnight ago, and an unparalleled ability to promote the Union Jack throughout the world, are obviously not enough to erect Lewis Hamilton as a natural candidate to ennoblement.
According to a recent survey conducted by the YouGov institute,
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