The women's rights campaigner who accused Lord Lester of harassment said she felt "re-victimised" as she watched Lords block his ban from Parliament.

The House of Lords privileges and conduct committee recommended on Monday that Lord Lester, 82, should be suspended until 2022 for allegedly telling Jasvinder Sanghera: "If you sleep with me I will make you a baroness within a year."

On Thursday, she watched peers overturn the decision - a move she described as "wholly wrong".

She told the Today programme: "Sitting there watching the vote, for me, personally felt like I was being subjected to being bullied from afar.

"Yet again I felt re-victimised. It was disheartening to hear members of the House of Lords straining to discuss me as individual, what I did, what I didn't do.

"And nobody in that room, actually very few - sorry forgive me - talked about the real issue here. The issues of sexual harassment and bullying and certainly did not discuss the impact on me.

"Lord Lester had the advantage of lobbying his friends and his peers. Each one stood up one by one and declared their interest of being his friend. And they were the ones that could have a say in deciding the vote.