'Lord' Alan Sugar - A Strange Affair

I don't understand what is going on here.

Sir Alan Sugar is to become Lord Sugar and the government's new 'Business and Enterprise' tsar, as well as continuing to star in the BBC show, The Apprentice.

As I understand it, he already advises Downing Street, so why there is a need for him to become a peer to continue as an advisor, I don't know. He claims that the role will be politically neutral and that he won't follow Labour's lead on voting. Hang on! He will be a Labour Peer and surely expected to take the party whip. Not that Sir Alan is familiar with the technicalities of the whip, he claimed in a BBC interview......

The Tories, unsurprisingly, are up in arms. They claim that Sir Alan's new role is incompatible with his job at the BBC and that he should choose one or the other. I'm blowed if I can understand why his role as the star of a game show would clash with his role as an advisor unless, of course, he is actually expected to be more than just an advisor.

Come to think of it, I'm not sure Sir Alan fully understands what is going on either!

Anyway, in my opinion, it would be a shame if political pressure forced him to turn down the advisory position in favour of The Apprentice, which is what I suspect he would do if it came down to a choice between the two.