THE leader of Essex County Council will write to the Houses of Parliament demanding his predecessor Lord Hanningfield is stripped of his peerage.
Tory councillor David Finch agreed to Ukip's suggestion on Tuesday last week during a review of his decision to write off the £51,000 the council say he owes them for inappropriate spending.
Ukip's Essex County Council leader Cllr Jamie Huntman said: "In my view, he is unfit to remain a peer of the realm. This man's largess knew no bounds when it came to spending taxpayers' money.
"Essex people work long and hard for what they earn and I believe he should be stripped of his peerage.
"This would be a fair and just consequence of his actions."
The peer has always denied he owed the council anything.
Lord Hanningfield, who was leader of the authority for nine years and a county councillor for 31 years, has faced numerous calls to remove the title bestowed on him in 1998 since his fall from grace.
However, as it stands, it is extremely difficult for a peer to be stripped of their title.
It would require a special Act of Parliament, which has not occurred since 1917 when peers who fought against the Crown in the First World War were dismissed.
The latest House of Lords Reform Act received Royal Assent in May, allowing lords who commit serious criminal offences resulting in a jail sentence of at least one year to be removed.
But it will not have retrospective effect.
The 73-year-old served nine weeks in jail in 2011 after being found guilty of a £14,000 expenses fraud, which also cost him more than £200,000 in legal fees.
He was later ordered to pay back £67,000 in expenses.
Currently, he is serving a one-year suspension from the House of Lords after he was found to have wrongly claimed £3,300 from the House last summer in what became known as the clocking-in scandal.
