JK Rowling has revealed she turned down two offers of a peerage in the House of Lords and would turn down a third. The author's remarks came after Conservative Party leader hopeful Kemi Badenoch said she would give Rowling a peerage for her stance on gender - a position critics have described as being transphobic.

The Harry Potter author, who was responding to comments by Conservative leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch, says Labour and Conservative governments have offered her a peerage.

Rowling is not the only British writer to have turned down an honour. JB Priestley refused a peerage, and Rudyard Kipling twice turned down a knighthood. CS Lewis, Roald Dahl and Aldous Huxley also refused a KBE.

JK Rowling has revealed that she turned down two offers of a peerage following Kemi Badenoch publicly saying she would appoint the author to the House of Lords.

I’ve already turned down a peerage twice, once under Labour and once under the Tories’J.K. Rowling has revealed she

Tory leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch has called for Harry Potter author JK Rowling to be given a seat in the House of Lords. The shadow communities secretary praised Rowling’s stance on sex-based rights,

JK Rowling has revealed that she turned down two offers of a peerage following Kemi Badenoch publicly saying she would appoint the author to the House of Lords