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Monday 20 July 2009 8:00 pm  |  Updated:  Friday 31 May 2019 7:00 am

THE RED BARON

By: admindrupal

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ENTREPRENEUR Sir Alan Sugar yesterday took his seat in the House of Lords as Baron Sugar of Clapton. The businessman and star of BBC TV series The Apprentice was enobled by Gordon Brown last month and asked to fill an advisory post as enterprise tsar. Lord Sugar’s official role is to help guide firms through the recession.

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