Lord Sugar is ordered to take down expenses tweet.

(From Leicester Mercury)

LORD Sugar was forced to remove a Twitter message speculating during one of the parliamentary expenses trials that a peer would be cleared because he was a Tory, it can be disclosed today.

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.

He also referred the matter to Attorney General Dominic Grieve, who has the power to bring charges against people who harm the process of justice but decided not to take any action.

As he allowed the media to report what happened for the first time, he also …