[3] He unsuccessfully stood in the ward of Syon at the 2006 Hounslow London Borough Council election.

[9][10] Ranger was nominated for a life peerage in Boris Johnson's resignation honours list.

The committee recommended that Ranger be suspended for three weeks and denied access to the bars of the House of Lords for twelve months.

[17] Ranger is a Sikh, born in Hammersmith in West London, the son of Indian parents.

His grandfather Gurnam Singh Sahni set up the first British-Asian newspaper, The Punjab Times, in the mid-1960s.