Sugar's unsweet Tweet

Lord Sugar was forced to remove a Twitter message during one of the parliamentary expenses trials, in which he speculated that a peer would be cleared because he was a Tory, it can now be disclosed.

Judge Mr Justice Saunders ordered the multi-millionaire Apprentice business guru to take down the posting on the popular website, fearing it could unfairly influence jurors.

The offending tweet was made during the trial of former Conservative peer Lord Taylor of Warwick in January.